{"quotes":[{"text":"If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.","author":"Robin A. Weiss","tags":["darwin","evolution","evolutionary-biology","virology"],"id":10882,"author_id":"Robin+A.+Weiss"},{"text":"A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.","author":"Jacob M. Appel","tags":["apes","biologists","biology","darwin","evolution","evolutionary-biology","humor","moneys","primate","primates","progress","science","scopes","scopes-monkey-trial"],"id":20390,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Appel"},{"text":"Things to know from books to read.","author":"Kip Koehler","tags":["business-culture","cookbook","evolutionary-biology","human-nature","philosophy-of-life","politics"],"id":28304,"author_id":"Kip+Koehler"},{"text":"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.","author":"John Burdon Sanderson Haldane","tags":["evolutionary-biology","genetics","science"],"id":57083,"author_id":"John+Burdon+Sanderson+Haldane"},{"text":"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["aboriginal-culture","ancient-culture","brainy","brainy-life-lessons","evolution","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","life","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-psyche","primitive-religion","primitive-urges","religion-and-science","religious","social-psychology","truth","truth"],"id":60767,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["evolutionary-biology","science"],"id":94016,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"},{"text":"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alter","change","course","direction","environmental","environmental-change","environmental-degradation","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-enlightenment","evolutionary-process","evolutionary-psychology","modify","path","radiation","radiation-effects"],"id":108159,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.","author":"Jack Gilbert","tags":["duplication","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-process","evolutionary-psychology","human-condition","physics","random","random-mutation","random-phenomena","universe"],"id":112117,"author_id":"Jack+Gilbert"},{"text":"The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene.","author":"Matt Ridley","tags":["biology","evolutionary-biology","science"],"id":156224,"author_id":"Matt+Ridley"},{"text":"The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["charles-darwin","darwin","eugenicist","eugenics","evolution","evolutionary-biology","leonard-darwin","race-hygiene","racism","racism-in-america","scientific-racism","scopes-monkey-trial","scopes-trial","theory-of-evolution"],"id":161580,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}