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Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
by George G. Simpsonkeywords: above, appear, categories, completely, continuous, every, families, family, genera, gradual, known, knows, led, level, most, nearly, new, record, sequences, species, suddenly, transitional , up He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
by George G. Simpsonkeywords: akin, animal, form, indeed, life, material, matter, nearly, order, primates, remotely, sort, species , state I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
by Carrie P. Snowkeywords: becoming, believe, cannot, communicate, danger, each, groups, increasingly, into, longer, members, other, same, species, split, think, which , world With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
by Anthony Storr (Author, English , born in 1920) keywords: certain, destroys, except, exception, habitually, his, homo, members, other, own, rodents, sapiens , species We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
by Levi Strauss (Businessman, American , born in 1829) keywords: because, chosen, eat, good, natural, species, think, too , understand Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
by Shinichi Suzuki (born in 1898) keywords: art, burn, exists, human, love, obligation, save, should, species, teach, think, those , world I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
by Studs Terkel (Journalist, American , born in 1912) keywords: because, despair, easiest, good, hope, human, idealist, perverse, practical, realistic, say, species, survive, thing, think, us, very , world The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
by George Wald (Scientist, American , born in 1906) keywords: chinese, competition, mistake, russians, species, thought, trivial, win , world Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
by Greg Walden (Politician, American , born in 1957) keywords: better, call, catastrophic, communities, fire, forests, fuel, helps, home, loads, neighboring, our, prevent, protects, removing, species, substantial , them These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
by John E. Walker (Scientist, English , born in 1941) keywords: analysis, atomic, biological, complete, complex, domain, enzyme, eventually, giving, how, insights, into, made, new, resolution, resulted, sequence, several, species, structure, studies, these , world There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
by Evelyn Waugh (Author, English , born in 1903) keywords: any, belief, called, clergyman, commit, draws, full, himself, modern, need, person, religious, salary , species I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
by George C. Williams (Scientist, American , born in 1926) keywords: adaptation, assumption, book, characterizes, criticism, directed, general, individuals, main, populations, rather, simply, species, than , think The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: correct, descendants, destruction, diversity, folly, forgive, genetic, going, habitats, least, likely, loss, millions, natural, now, our, process, species, take, us, will , years We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.
by Don Young (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: act, because, country, endangered, fact, freemen, got, government, hand, line, militants, our, out, species, unrest, why , wonder
