Quotes About Biology

Our desire for alcohol is not an evolutionary mistake. There are good reasons for why we get drunk.

People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.

Animals and birds enjoy just one sex-attitude within its instinct. Conversely, it is only a human, who discovered above nature, sex postures in an awkward way. Applause, please.

For example, Kagan found that babies who later showed this trait also had cooler foreheads on the right side of their head, which indicates greater activity on the right side of the brain. (The blood is drawn away from the surface toward the activity.)

I should add that concepts very much like sensitivity are being studied by other researchers. If you are interested in this work, you can look up terms such as biological sensitivity to context (authors will be Thomas Boyce, Bruce Ellis, and others) and orienting sensitivity (the main authors will be David Evans and Mary Rothbart).

She said that since then she had been very careful never to forget that we are very crowded beings, full of physics, astrophysics, biology, religion, soul, bourgeoisie, proletariat, capital, work, profit, politics, many harmonious phrases, many unharmonious, the chaos inside and the chaos outside.

The specious idea that gender differences are due entirely to culture, and have nothing to do with biological or archetypal predispositions, still enjoys wide currency in our society, yet it rests on the discredited tabula rasa theory of human development and is at variance with the overwhelming mass of anthropological and scientific evidence.

Life is a chemical process.

For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.

Our bodies do not divide as neatly into male and female as many people commonly believe.4 Nor do our minds. As Magnus Hirschfeld, the pioneering early twentieth-century sexologist, argued, "the human is not a man or woman, but rather man and woman.

The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.

When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn't for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.

the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.

From this point of view, a male cuttlefish who copulates with a dead female is not only wasting his time but making a serious philosophical mistake.

morning sickness typically starts four to six weeks after conception and disappears by fourteen to fifteen weeks.

Canadian researcher Anne Storey found that new fathers' testosterone levels often drop by as much as a third right after the birth of their children. Since testosterone is involved in energy and mood, lower levels could explain why some men feel a little down.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.