Quotes About Biology

All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

Your muscles tensed up, your blood pressure rose, and your heart rate increased. Someone looking closely at your eyes while you tackled this problem would have seen your pupils dilate.

The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body

Zajonc argued that the effect of repetition on liking is a profoundly im- portant biological fact, and that it extends to all animals.

Los mismos alimentos capaces de desencadenar una reacción alérgica cuando están incorrectamente combinados muchas veces no producen ningún efecto nocivo cuando se consumen de acuerdo con las leyes de la trofología.

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

Físicamente, la ira y el resentimiento producen un caudal constante de hormonas del estrés,

This simple fact explains an awful lot about the biology and conservation of bumblebees. They have to eat almost continually to keep warm; a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation. If a bumblebee runs out of energy, she cannot fly, and if she cannot fly, she cannot get to flowers to get more food, so she is doomed

Many bees evolved longer and longer tongues to make it easier for them to reach nectar hidden within flowers; some now have tongues longer than their bodies.fn1

There is strong evidence that there exists a genetic predisposition for aggression. In all species the best hunter, the best fighter, the most aggressive male, survives to pass his biological predispositions on to his descendants. There are also environmental processes that can fully develop this predisposition toward aggression; when we combine this genetic predisposition with environmental development we get a killer.

strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

Many species undergo an additional partial molt each year, involving just some head and body feathers. This most often occurs in the late winter or early spring and is called the pre-alternate molt, resulting in the alternate plumage. Many species, but not all, have an alternate plumage. Because this is only a partial molt (not involving all feathers), the new feathers of the alternate plumage are worn alongside the older feathers of the basic plumage.

Ninety-six percent of the mass of all the mammals on Earth is made up of our bodies and those of the animals that we raise to eat.

biological mum

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.

I don't think we're for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose," but I'm anticipating a good lunch.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.

The idea I am trying to launch here is: the appearance of new species naturally and the appearance of new inventions by artifice are both responses to need.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

This radical neglect of biology limits the ability not just of queer Theory but of all scholarship on these topics to rigorously investigate socialized aspects of gender presentation and expectations - while rendering potentially valuable insights from queer Theory nearly completely irrelevant to those serious about such questions.