Quotes about Evolutionary Biology from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Plate tectonics, classical evolutionary biology, and longwave historiography are all linear systems. The other parh is a series of swirchbacks, a historical record built on catastrophic discontinuities. Examples are extinctions, asteroid impacrs, tidal waves—and plagues.
A tidal wave leaves a mark by the force of its collision with the shore, but also by carving new channels in the land over which it washes and then recedes. The most long-lasting effect of the plague was not its initial impact, but the way in which its aftershocks remade the topography of Europe and the Mediterranean."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "As I listened to how he had constructed his "diet," I was transported back thirty years to when I researched this field for my honors thesis on Human evolutionary biology at Yale. After medical school, I applied this knowledge as a Clinical Associate at The National Institutes of Health, where I developed methods and treatments to prevent and reverse damage in coronary arteries and heart muscle cells.
Our encounter started a personal quest that up-ended most of my preconceived notions about the underlying causes of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, obesity ... and you name it."- Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) |
 "More generally, evolutionary biology currently lacks a coherent framework for predicting whether any particular type of trait is likely to evolve primarily by changes in structural genes or changes in regulatory genes.
Investigations of the evolution of flower color are beginning to provide some insight into these evolutionary issues."- Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "A central issue in evolutionary biology regards the nature of genes involved in adaptive evolutionary change. Substantial evidence is accruing to indicate that regulatory sequences, including both c/s-regulatory regions as well as transcription factors, play a major role in morphological evolution in plants and animals (King and Wilson, 1975; Britten and Davidson, 1969, 1971; Dickinson, 1991; Doebley, 1993; Doebley and Lukens, 1998; Wray et al., 2003)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
 "Indeed, there's only one way to overcome evolutionary biology: You must eat in a way that triggers that appetite center in your brain to tell the rest of your body that you're satisfied with less. To eat less, you need more than your willpower and determination on your side. You need your brain.
The Flavor-Full Meal Plan teaches you to choose foods free of superfluous flavor enhancers, foods that don't overstimulate your appetite center and lead to excessive eating."- David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.) "Over millions of years, our evolutionary biology has trained us to enjoy foods that keep us alive and abhor foods that don't. Most humans love sweet tastes, for example, and generally don't like bitter ones; one reason for this is that nature's poisons often come in bitter packages, while sweet foods are rarely if ever toxic. We've also learned to delight in sweet tastes because sweet foods provided the calories our early ancestors needed to stay alive." - David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.) |
 "Stephen Jay Gould, one of the fathers of modern evolutionary biology, wrote that, "Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness."22
In the jargon of science, consciousness is regarded as an "epiphenomenon of matter." Matter comes first, then consciousness."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "An editorial in Science on Cairns' work was called "A Heresy In evolutionary biology." (Heresies? Dogmas? Yes, science has become the new religion!)
The new science reveals that organisms shape their genomes, and species evolve, as a direct consequence of their interactions with their environment. Recognizing the importance of the environment in evolution and in genetics leads us to a completely different understanding of _g_ the origins and purpose of life."- APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.) |
 "Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. In historical sciences, one can provide a posteriori explanations (e.g., why an asteroid impact on Earth 66 million years ago may have driven dinosaurs but not many other species to extinction), but a priori predictions are more difficult (we would be uncertain which species would be driven to extinction if we did not have the actual past event to guide us)."- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Scientists in those fields tend to be ignorantly disdainful of fields to which those methodologies are inappropriate and which must therefore seek other methodologies—such as my own research areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. But recall that the word "science" means "knowledge" (from the Latin scire, "to know," and scientia, "knowledge"), to be obtained by whatever methods are most appropriate to the particular field. Hence I have much empathy with students of human history for the difficulties they face." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Hence it seems appropriate to conclude this book by looking to the future of the discipline of history, and by outlining some of the unresolved issues. The most straightforward extension of this book will be to quantify further, and thus to establish more convincingly the role of, intercontinental differences in the four sets of factors that appear to be most important." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Paul Harvey and Mark Pagel, The Comparative Method in evolutionary biology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), analyzes how to extract conclusions by comparing species. 2003 Afterword Two articles and one book summarize discoveries of the last half-dozen years about domestication of plants and animals, spreads of language families, and the relation of the spreads of language families to food production: Jared Diamond, "Evolution, consequences and the future of plant and animal domestication," Nature 418:34?" - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) |
| "I sat through the screening of this Sorcerer's Apprentice tale thinking, "Those guys need to take a basic first level university course in evolutionary biology." Indeed, the lack of appreciation for context on all levels of human enterprises—cultural, economic, biological—is what characterizes this astounding obsession with the exploitation of everything that lives for the sake of a quick buck. The documentary got a standing ovation that seemed to last forever. The last time I experienced that in a theater was when Star Wars was first released." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
| "This new way of examining our health has been called "Darwinian," which Dr Jerome Kassirer, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, the bastion of conservatism still fearful of the dangers of ascorbic acid, has dismissed as "just wild speculation," to which Dr Randolph Ness, author of Why We Get Sick retorted, "many brilliant doctors don't understand the most fundamental ideas of evolutionary biology."
An experiment conducted at Colorado State University in Fort Collins showed that the prehistoric or primitive diet was healthier than our current diet." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "The degree to which an organism destroys its host is called virulence. The range of virulence found in pathogens that infect humans is enormous—from all-but-harmless (pinworms) to unpleasant but hardly dangerous (the common cold) to rapidly, horribly fatal (Ebola). So why does one microbe evolve toward massive virulence while another is content to leave you up and running? Ewald believes the key factor that determines virulence is how a given parasite gets from host to host."- Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
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