- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
- Crumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.
- Massive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Massive self-confidence is boring.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
- Link
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pikaia is a missing link because, of all chordates, it's probably the most primitive.
- Habitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020