Quotes About Biology

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Biological psychologist Also known as neuro- or biopsychologists, biological psychologists use scanners and other high-tech equipment to study the brain and learn about the biological basis of behavior.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

This covert or overt biological determinism, paraphrased in Freud's statement that anatomy is destiny, perhaps the most deep rooted obstacle to the analysis of the causes of women oppression and exploitation

The roughness on the under side of the wing comes from tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface. These cover tiny holes that perforate the wing, and are hinged to form tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to free his hands for masturbation.

If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. "Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.

neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain's empathy system is considerably more active than the male's.3)

Nadia, if all women were to wear paint on their faces, just think, there could be no more natural selection. The inevitable result would be the uglification of the species. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

Recordemos que tanto la piel como el sistema nervioso son las únicas estructuras que proceden de la misma hoja embrionaria, el ectodermo.

Emotions can even affect whether certain genes are turned "on" or "off"—altering, for example, our bodies' response to stress.