Quotes About Species

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

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.

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

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.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.