Evolution quotes 9 Jun 2010 For although there seems to be so great a difference between widely separate nations, that you might easily take the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, the Greenlanders, and the Circassians for so many different species of man, yet when the matter is thoroughly considered, you see that all do so run into one another, and that one variety of mankind does so sensibly pass into the other, that you cannot mark out the limits between them. [Johann Blumenbach, On The Natural Variety of Mankind, in Anthropological Treatises, 1865 English edition, first published in 1775, p98] Evolution History Quotes EvolutionHistoryQuotes
Administrative Travel Diary 9: An Australian in New York 24 Oct 2009 I’m an alien, a legal alien, and I have been in New York for a week. This is what I did there… Read More
Biology Johnson on instinct 16 Nov 2009 “We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists, and therefore cannot tell with exactness how they differ; but surely he that contemplates a ship and a bird’s nest will not be long without finding out that the idea of the one was impressed at once, and continued… Read More
Evolution Development of the universe 25 Jun 2008 The French have always had an affinity for developmental models of historical processes. Comte famously argued that societies had four stages to go through. Lamarck held that species were like individual organisms that had a youth, maturity and senescence. And more recently Teilhard held that evolution was heading towards a… Read More