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"This myth dates from the nineteenth century, a consequence of the popular understanding of Darwin's theory of natural selection. It claims that in society, as in nature, "the fittest survive," meaning that if we are to survive we have to be fitter for the struggle of life than others around us: smarter, more ambitious, more daring, and richer and more powerful than our competitors. Transposing nineteenth-century Darwinism to the sphere of society can be lethal, as the "social Darwinism" adopted by Hitler's Nazi ideology has shown." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"One wonders, if darwin had known then what contemporary systems science knows now, would he have written a different Origin of Species'! We suspect so. And if darwin had written a different Origin of Species, would other "Darwinians"—including certain chaos and complexity theorists—have expressed this revised vision in their writings? We would hope so. Everything, including science itself, is potentially an expression of an evolving process (Stage E). If the systemic memory process is correct, it is possible that what we call "evolution" may itself be "evolving." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"In a chilling echo of more innocent times, Thomas and his colleagues' paper reminds me in reverse of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Whilst Darwin's work laid out the theory for species' evolution down the ages, the 2004 Nature paper maps out their projected disappearance. Were darwin to have written the study today, he might have called it The End of Species." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"You don't find that insight in Darwinian theory. darwin took his theory from Malthus, leading him to say everything in Nature is an endless struggle in scarcity. Even though darwin himself observed a lot of cooperation, he didn't put that into his theory. "We're at the stage that the ancient bacteria were after two billion years of hostilities, when they formed the nucleated cell as a cooperative that was thousands of times bigger than a single bacterium. It was so successful that we never had to reinvent or re-evolve another cell in two billion years." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"To the consternation of the Church of England, Charles Darwin's idea that the fittest survived in the natural world became broadly accepted.9 darwin understood that social and economic conditions could completely undermine what he had found in the animal world. Slavery, which he opposed, could not be ascribed to natural selection. Many of Darwin's early followers missed this subtlety. They naively believed that they could create a better human society based on natural selection, through what was dubbed eugenics—literally meaning well-born." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"What's in it for darwin? Or more correctly asked, what is the evolutionary advantage that this mutation gives to Afro-Americans that makes its obvious disadvantages worthwhile? After all, as McElroy and Townsend point out, "It is only the phenotypic characteristics that give some advantage of degree of Darwinian fitness that are subject to selective action."6 At first glance, the sickle cell anemia trait appears to provide Afro-Americans with the very reverse of Darwinian fitness. After all, those with this genetic disorder tend to die in adolescence." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"Wallace, whose manuscript was a shorter but otherwise parallel exposition of Darwin's theory At the time, Wallace was in the Molucca Islands of the Malay Archipelago. He knew of darwin as a naturalist, but had not the slightest idea of the kind of theoretical work on which darwin was at the time engaged. In each case, a creative scientist had independently arrived at a hypothesis that was to change the entire development of biological science. Backed up later by documentary evidence, each had initially conceived of the hypothesis in an intuitive "flash." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones (Random House, 2000) Steve Jones's book is a sharp overview of current scientific thinking about evolution and biodiversity, as well as an insightful meditation on the work of Charles darwin. "No biologist can work without the theory of evolution. Like Galileo's notion of a solar system with the sun at its center, Darwin's long argument makes sense of their subject. Ideas of origin were once, like Moby Dick, allegories. They helped to comprehend not the structure but the meaning of the universe." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Charles darwin had a bulbous nose. Because of it, he almost literally missed the boat to the Galapagos Islands on his way to coming up with the theory of evolution. The captain of the ship, the HMS Beagle, was a disciple of the famous physiognomist Lavater. darwin wrote in his autobiography that the captain "doubted wheather [sic] anyone with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage." A CREASE OVER THE NOSE Have you ever seen someone with a crease on the bridge of the nose? If so, it may be a sign of a serious nasal allergy." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"According to the notes of Charles darwin, the father of science, he may not have been healthy enough to write "The Origin of the Species" without the k water and powders from his homeopath, Dr. James Manby Gully. Note to self: darwin was not a slave to conformist thinking or a dummy with regards to scientific matters! Source: Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, by Dana Ullman www.homeopathicrevolution." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"He knew of darwin as a naturalist, but had not the slightest idea of the kind of theoretical work on which darwin was at the time engaged. In each case, a creative scientist had independently arrived at a hypothesis that was to change the entire development of biological science. Backed up later by documentary evidence, each had initially conceived of the hypothesis in an intuitive "flash."30 The number of joint Nobel prizes, often awarded to researchers who have had no contact with each other, testifies that entanglement did not start or end in the nineteenth century." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"And if darwin had written a different Origin of Species, would other "Darwinians"—including certain chaos and complexity theorists—have expressed this revised vision in their writings? We would hope so. Everything, including science itself, is potentially an expression of an evolving process (Stage E). If the systemic memory process is correct, it is possible that what we call "evolution" may itself be "evolving." A conceptually challenging premise to ponder. What are Some Implications for Psychology?" - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"In prestigious universities around the world tiny pockets of quiet rebellion were sprouting up against the world view of Newton and darwin, the dualism in physics and the current view of human perception. During his search, Ed began making contact with scientists with impressive credentials at many of the big reputable universities - Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Edinburgh - who were coming up with discoveries that just didn't fit. Unlike Edgar, these scientists hadn't undergone an epiphany to arrive at a new world view." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In the competition between the Church and science for control of western civilization, Charles darwin delivered the decisive blow in 1859 when he published the Origin of Species. Darwin's theory of evolution suggested that the traits that characterize an individual were passed from the parents to the offspring. Life then was controlled by material hereditary factors, which a child acquires via the chemistry of the egg and sperm, not from God. darwin extended his ideas to further suggest that random variations of these hereditary factors created the diversity of Nature's species." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Ever since darwin, the informing idea of taxonomic categories such as genera, families, phyla, and so on, is that members should have a common ancestor, rather like a family tree: First cousins share grandparents; second cousins great-grandparents. But the purely morphological technique that grouped like with like—mammals have fur, insects chitin—was too blunt a filter for unicellular life." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Charles darwin, The Origin of Species IT IS A PERVERSITY of language that one of the deadliest diseases in mankind's history—so feared that it has become virtually a metaphor for epidemic illness—isn't even directly contagious between humans, at least in its most common form. Bubonic plague is a zoonosis, a disease that makes its home in a population of animals, sometimes marmots, or prairie dogs, or gerbils, where it remains chronic to this day.* But the historical importance of every other plague carrier combined is dwarfed by the impact of the rat." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "One of the key insights of all the great biological scientists, from darwin forward, is that the history of even a single-celled organism is still, aftet all, history, in some sense unrepeatable and unpredictable, but not unconstrained. The history of life, like that of humanity, flows thtough a channel confined by the edicts of nature, of course; the dimensions of a bird's wing cannot violate the cube-square law, for example. But it is also narrowed by choices made." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In the competition between the Church and science for control of western civilization, Charles darwin delivered the decisive blow in 1859 when he published the Origin of Species. Darwin's theory of evolution suggested that the traits that characterize an individual were passed from the parents to the offspring. Life then was controlled by material hereditary factors, which a child acquires via the chemistry of the egg and sperm, not from God. darwin extended his ideas to further suggest that random variations of these hereditary factors created the diversity of Nature's species." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Their work suggested a decentralized but unified intelligence that was far grander and more exquisite than darwin or Newton had imagined, a process that was not random or chaotic, but intelligent and purposeful. They'd discovered that in the dynamic flow of life, order triumphed. These are discoveries that may change the lives of future generations in many practical ways, in fuel-less travel and instant levitation; but in terms of understanding the furthest reaches of human potential, their work suggested something far more profound." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Others, such as Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, have called plant cells "thoughtful," while darwin referred to their "root-tip brains." Leslie Sieberth, a biologist at the University of Utah, says, "If intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, then, absolutely, plants are intelligent." What is becoming clear is that plants have an enormous capacity for computing and for making decisions about complex aspects of their environment like light, water, gravity, vibrations, chemicals, temperature, sound, and predators." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In some ways, inflation is similar to Darwin's theory of evolution. Both theories proposed an explanation for something that was previously believed to be impossible to explain. The realm of scientific inquiry was thus substantially expanded. In both cases, the explanation was very compelling, and no plausible alternatives have ever been suggested. Another parallel with darwin is that the idea of inflation was already in the air at the time when Guth proposed it." - Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER NINE "The Fury of the Wrath of God" 540-542 IN 1883, THE Victorian naturalist and writer Thomas Henry Huxley?"Darwin's bulldog" and the world's first self-declared agnostic?described Alexandria, as seen from the Mediterranean, in singularly unimpressive terms. "Nothing can be less attractive than the flat shore which stretches east and west as far as the eye can reach, without an elevation of more importance than bare and barren sand dunes to break its even line." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Like Galileo's notion of a solar system with the sun at its center, Darwin's long argument makes sense of their subject. Ideas of origin were once, like Moby Dick, allegories. They helped to comprehend not the structure but the meaning of the universe. Some still hope to find symbolic significance in Darwinism. They will not: but his work turned the study of life into science rather than a collection of unrelated anecdotes." Sustainable Forestry ¦¦¦¦l Wood and paper products might seem to be an environmentalist's best friends." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Fields could be a poster boy for this condition, which is SIGN OF THE TIMES seen almost exclusively in men over Charles darwin had a bulbous 40 years of age. A bulbous nose is nose. Because of it, he almost actuajjy a severe_though relatively fitoraik/ miccnH the hnat tr» rare—form of rosacea. (See A Red Nose, above.) People with this condition usually have other nasal signs, such as excess or thickened nose skin. Because of the increased number of oil glands in the nose, another sign of rhinophyma is waxy, greasy, yellow skin." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "The captain of the ship, the HMS Beagle, was a disciple of the famous physiognomist Lavater. darwin wrote in his autobiography that the captain "doubted wheather [sic] anyone with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage." A CREASE OVER THE NOSE Have you ever seen someone with a crease on the bridge of the nose? If so, it may be a sign of a serious nasal allergy. The crease is the result of what's called the nasal salute." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"FREUD Freud's monumental accomplishments have undergone a good deal of revisionist nitpicking in recent years, but I heartily endorse Jared Diamond's judgment in the February 2001 issue of Natural History: "Only two scientists within the last two centuries clearly qualify as irreplaceable: Charles darwin and Sigmund Freud." To support his claim, Diamond goes on, "To begin with, darwin and Freud were both multifaceted geniuses with many talents in common. Both were great observers, attuned to perceiving in familiar phenomena a significance that had escaped almost everyone else." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Many of Darwin's early followers missed this subtlety. They naively believed that they could create a better human society based on natural selection, through what was dubbed eugenics—literally meaning well-born. Unlike darwin, his cousin Francis Gal ton was not a man of nuance. Like many staunch advocates of eugenics, he opposed philanthropy on the ground that it propped up those who would naturally perish. In a tract written in 1869 he urged that marriage be regarded as an opportunity to promote a better race: "As it is easy ..." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"At the time, the notion of inherited acquired characteristics was widely held, including by darwin. darwin even praised Lamarck in Origin ofthe Species for helping to popularize the idea of evolution. Unfortunately for him, poor Jean-Baptiste became the victim of a schoolbook version of the theory he didn't develop. Somewhere along the line a science writer (whose name is lost to history) acquired the notion that Lamarck was responsible for the idea of inherited acquired traits, and generations of successive science writers have inherited that idea and passed it on." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

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