Ian Tattersall Quotes

• Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

  Ian Tattersall

  Hominids, Adapted, Havens

  Ian Tattersall (2012). “Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Es... muy probable que desde el principio, aparte de la muerte, la única regla de hierro de la experiencia humana haya sido la Ley de las Consecuencias Inesperadas.

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  Law, Unintended Consequences, Human Experience

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• Tal vez algún día seamos capaces, al menos, de admitir que Dios posee la majestad y la amplitud suficientes para trascender los límites de nuestra propia imaginación y experiencia. Pero mientras tanto... haríamos bien en considerar la insuficiencia de nuestros conceptos de Dios como el espejo más fiel de esas limitaciones que definen nuestra condición.

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  Mirrors, Imagination, One Day

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• Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

  Ian Tattersall

  Brain, Mysterious, Behavior

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• The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

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  Alternatives, Extinction, Good Things

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• When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.

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  Quality, Would Be, Habitat

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