Quotes About Species

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

The fourth and final explanation for the rich biodiversity of cities is the sheer diversity of habitat patches.

In other words, Passer domesticus has become an urban species because it was already adapted to a lifestyle that, purely by accident, prepared it for the niches that we have created in cities. The urban environment offers conditions that happen to resemble one or more aspects of a species' way of living in pre-urban times. And it is those species that are pre-adapted to the novel niches in the city. They are the first to move in.

Roughly, with every tenfold increase in island size, the number of species you find there doubles.

What all this means is that the ecosystems of cities around the world are growing more and more alike; their communities of plants and animals, fungi, single-celled organisms, and viruses are slowly inching toward a single globalized, multi-purpose urban biodiversity. And even if the exact species across cities may not be identical, you will find similar species playing similar roles.

What she means is that cities exchange not only species, but also the human inventions that make those cities tick and that urban organisms must adapt to.

Phylogeography began in the 1980s as a way to tell the evolutionary history of natural populations of animals and plants. It usually involves looking at a large number of "markers," variable bits in the DNA of a species, for a lot of specimens from different parts of a species' area of distribution. Phylogeographers can then use such rich information on the genetic make-up of a species to trace back its history.

In light of such evidence as is now available, Nostradamus's 'prophecy' seems not to have been a 'prophecy' at all, but a species of blueprint for action, perhaps some sort of coded instruction or signal.

With so many different coronaviruses circulating among so many different species, it is considered likely a matter of when, not if, the next recombinant coronavirus will emerge and burst into the human population.119

With so many different coronaviruses circulating among so many different species, it is considered likely a matter of when, not if, the next recombinant coronavirus will emerge and burst into the human population.

Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and motion, with which nature has provided young females in its blind desire to propagate the species.

That was the real question, and the one that destroyed her credibility in the world of academia. When it came to omnipotent beings living in gated communities in the clouds, people were willing to believe almost anything, but when it came to otherworldly species, they demanded a level of proof that couldn't be demonstrated without producing a body. That

Thoughts of different species take wing and play round one another, responding to each other's movements and provoking one another to fresh exertions. Nobody asks where they have come from or on what authority they are present; nobody cares what will become of them when they have played their part.

The list is long, and we humans seem to have more instincts than other creatures.

nature gracefully, gradually self-regulates species and environments

According to the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness—a statement issued in 2012 by an international group of prominent cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neuroanatomists, and computational neuroscientists—there is a convergence of evidence to show the continuity between humans and nonhuman animals, and that sentience is the common characteristic across species.

Evolution does not just produce new species; it produces an increasing number of new species.

Well, which is the most rational theory about these ten millions of species? Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations? or is it most likely that, by continual modifications due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still?"4 It's a good question.

In the memorable observation by geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Imagining human culture from the perspective of a non-human species can be salutary.

It may be possible in the not-too-distant future to use CRISPR to create whole new species.

What could we do, then? We asked ourselves the question while crossing the dunes. Live? It's precisely in this kind of situation that, crushed by the sense of their own insignificance, people decide to have children; this is how the species reproduces, although less and less, it must be said.

Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

De modo que llegó una época, quizá, en la que para algunas especies el ritmo al que aumentaba el aprendizaje alcanzó una pendiente tal que, de repente, ocurrió una cosa completamente nueva; un animal podía aprender cosas, transmitirlas a otro y a otro con la suficiente rapidez para que no se perdieran para la especie. Así fue posible una acumulación de saber de la especie. A veces a esto se le ha llamado enlazar el tiempo.