There is no species that is “more developed” than another. In the end, the soupy mess of organisms that are alive today are all on the same level, having evolved to fit the specific ecological niches that they inhabit.
-- https://futurism.com/three-main-pieces-of-evidence-supporting-evolution/
You know, there's this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche.
-- Jeremy Niven
Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything.
-- PZ Myer
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Are human apes more developed than a cockroach? Of course not. These 3 quotes explain why.
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