Quotes About Adaptation

El lenguaje no es una propiedad del individuo, sino de la colectividad. No es que un individuo se comunique bien; sería mejor decir que un grupo está bien comunicado. La capacidad para compartir y transmitir información entre individuos y entre generaciones por la vía del lenguaje confiere una gran ventaja adaptativa al grupo en su conjunto, no al individuo aislado.

Esta imprevisibilidad de la evolución indica que nada está escrito de antemano, que todo es posible. Muestra que el grupo biológico más floreciente puede extinguirse a causa de cambios en el medio físico o por culpa de la competencia con otros grupos de organismos. Ninguna forma de vida puede considerarse superior a las demás, porque ninguna está a salvo de la hecatombe.

En la imagen del árbol de la vida que tenía en su mente Darwin hay también mucha muerte. Un gran número de hojas secas yacen en el suelo, bajo la verde copa. Corresponden a los organismos desaparecidos que solo nos son conocidos por los fósiles, las hojas marchitas que en su día brillaron al sol.

Vivimos rompiendo nuestro mundo a cada rato...

tengo algunos rebusques todavía, pero no quiero ni oír las cosas viejas. Me hace mal. Es una cuestión de salud.

break this mountain to fill that valley

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

She had lived with the story as you live with a favourite book, which changes with you as you change and grow

It was an impossibility, but Augusta lived quite comfortably with impossibilities.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

Another feature we lose in going from logic to uncertainty is incrementality.

it occurred to him that having a newborn ought to qualify a person as handicapped. He

the past two weeks. It

Discovering a New Intelligence You never change things by fighting the existing reality. —To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. —BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Anytime our lives are disrupted by change, we turn to conversational rituals to "re-anchor" us to a safe place.

We'll come back," said Papa. "I know," said Anna... "But it won't be the same - we won't belong. Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?" "I suppose not," said Papa. "Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.

I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

Each of us becomes ready to surrender for different reasons and the accompanying change is sometimes painful. Just as a seed starts in the darkness and then splits apart to become something larger and more alive, surrender impels our consciousness to grow—a

There will always be someone out there demanding something different from you.

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.