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Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Jill Bolte Taylor

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events. — Jill Bolte Taylor

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Douglas J. Futuyma

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual. — Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Douglas J. Futuyma

Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. Biological evolution is ... change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next — Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Jennifer L. Armentrout

You really have a thing for books." When I didn't respond, he closed the the laptop without touching it. "It's cute. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Over the course of human evolution, as each group of people became gradually aware of the enormity of its isolation in the cosmos and of the precariousness of its hold on survival, it developed myths and beliefs to transform the random, crushing forces of the universe into manageable, or at least understandable, patterns. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Carole Bayer Sager

Love shouldn't diminish you; it should enhance you. — Carole Bayer Sager

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Marisha Pessl

Suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said. — Marisha Pessl

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By George W. Bush

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom. — George W. Bush

Douglas Futuyma Quotes By Douglas J. Futuyma

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology. — Douglas J. Futuyma