Quotes About Biology

We are not that different than animals- an orangutan is 97 percent the same as humans, one day we may be the ones going under their rules

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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

No two bodies will decompose in the same way, and at the same rate. You can have two bodies that are literally six feet apart and they will decompose in entirely different manners. It could be the amount of fat on the body. It could be the drugs they were taking, or the medication. It could be the type of clothing they're wearing. It could be that one has a particular odour that is more attractive to flies than the other. Absolutely anything.

Lots of things happen in a woman's body, and nothing works exactly on schedule.

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

No differences exist in the quality of muscle between males and females.

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

In fact, most cells of your body change every seven years and, in fact, every atom in your body changes over about once every year.

most behaviorally sophisticated animals outside the bilaterians are the—terrifying—box jellyfish

Crabs and some shrimp, in contrast, will groom injured areas.

Legs and fins don't necessarily show that one animal was interacting with others. Claws, in contrast, have little ambiguity.

Sentience is brought into being somehow from the evolution of sensing and acting; it involves being a living system with a point of view on the world around it

What does it feel like to be a frog perceiving the world

Once the same chemicals are being sensed and produced, there is the possibility of coordination between cells. We have reached the birth of social behavior.

Around the top of their body are two dozen sophisticated eyes—

Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order.

sex for reproduction

In explaining the importance of understanding our biology, Dawkins writes; "Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something which no other species has ever aspired to.

More important still, we do not yet know how many of these differences are really due to the different genetic endowments of the different races and sexes, and how many are due to poor schools, poor housing, and other factors that are the result of past and continuing discrimination.