Quotes About Species propagation

The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes. Alleles (different versions of a gene) that increase the number of offspring become more common over the generations, even if that shortens life and increases suffering. This is not merely theoretical. Half of the human population has been shaped by selection to live fast and die young.

A replicator may be said to 'benefit' from anything that increases the number of its descendant ('germ-line') copies.

concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especie. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

La verdad es que son precisamente los animales quienes sólo emplean el sexo para procrear

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Why is life worth living on the basis of evolutionary principles? To propagate the species? But why must the human species continue to exist? On account of humanistic theories, humanity would eventually become extinct.