5090 | Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
23301 | There is a gradual proceeding from the inanimate to animals, with no clear borderlines [Aristotle] |
15961 | I don't see how mere moving matter can lead to the bodies of men and animals, and especially their seeds [Boyle] |
12567 | It is inconceivable that unthinking matter could produce intelligence [Locke] |
19414 | Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz] |
7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
19776 | Small uninterrupted causes can have big effects [Rousseau] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
6938 | Natural selection might well fill an animal's mind with pleasing thoughts rather than true ones [Peirce] |
20241 | Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull [Nietzsche] |
7180 | Darwin overestimates the influence of 'external circumstances' [Nietzsche] |
7178 | The utility of an organ does not explain its origin, on the contrary! [Nietzsche] |
7179 | Survival might undermine an individual's value, or prevent its evolution [Nietzsche] |
4535 | A 'species' is a stable phase of evolution, implying the false notion that evolution has a goal [Nietzsche] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
3502 | Mind involves fighting, fleeing, feeding and fornicating [Searle] |
3804 | Darwin's idea was the best idea ever [Dennett] |
7515 | All the evidence says evolution is cruel and wasteful, not intelligent [Pinker] |
7514 | Intelligent Design says that every unexplained phenomenon must be design, by default [Pinker] |
23993 | Our capabilities did not all evolve during the hunter gathering period [Goldie] |
7462 | DNA mutation suggests humans and chimpanzees diverged 6.6 million years ago [Watson] |