Quotes About Biology

Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin--that same chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities.

Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn't just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain's provenance is inseparable from other species' brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.

Man is made up of about 80% water so it is no wonder that he is polluted.

parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology. The book in your

Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution.

your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.

But research coming from the fields of evolutionary biology, physiology and neuroscience is all pointing to the fact that walking a lot, and running a little, made our species what it is today. If we don't do it enough, we risk losing our mental and emotional edge.

You picture a garden gone to seed: moss growing on the surface of our spleens, vines squeezing our kidneys. Tiny mushrooms spreading across the linings of our intestines.

I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.

Chaitin proved that physical laws alone, for example, could not explain chemistry or biology, because the laws of physics contain drastically less information than do chemical or biological phenomena.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

En cuanto al ser humano, no debe esperarse que escape, en su larga trayectoria, a la suerte de los animales inferiores. Si hay una ley biológica de flujo y reflujo, su situación es ahora muy peligrosa. Durante diez mil años su número ha aumentado constantemente a pesar de las guerras, las pestes y las hambres. Biológicamente, la prosperidad del ser humano es demasiado larga.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

La maladie est une expérience d'innovation positive du vivant et non plus seulement un fait diminutif ou multiplicatif. Le contenu de l'état pathologique ne se laisse pas déduire, sauf différence de format, du contenu de la santé : la maladie n'est pas une variation sur la dimension de la santé ; elle est une nouvelle dimension de la vie.

La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel . La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.

I want to reemphasize that we're not dealing with water at the molecular level; we're dealing with crowds of water molecules. We don't yet understand water molecules

except millet and sorghum, known as lectins. If lectin proteins are absorbed through a leaky gut (which normally would prevent their absorption), they cause inflammatory reactions throughout the body, including the brain. If the gut is leaky, the blood-brain barrier tends to be leaky as well.

In all known life, there are primarily twenty different amino acids. Stringing these twenty amino acids together in varied sequences produces varied proteins, just as intelligently stringing together the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet in varied sequences will produce varied sentences and sonnets.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.