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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
Peter Diamandis / Physician
Close Friends
Brains
Millions Of Years
Wired
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge / Computer Scientist
Baggage
Competition
Humans
Light
Millions
Regard
Years
Deadly
Evolutionary
Millions Of Years
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What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.
Paul Allen / Philanthropist
Evolution
Human Body
Designed
Millions Of Years
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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Developing
Earth
Looks
Millions
Species
Years
Millions Of Years
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Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.
S.e. Cupp /
Alive
Dna
Millions
Based
Communities
Forming
Loyalties
Millions Of Years
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The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
Joel Fuhrman / M.d.
Diet
Millions
Natural
Salt
Sodium
Added
Adding
Contain
Foods
Per
Millions Of Years
Present
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Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
Robert Shea /
Millions
Packs
Years Ago
Ancestors
Eaten
Ended
Hunt
Indeed
Millions Of Years
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We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.
Robert Greene / American Author
Hunting
Nomadic
Open Spaces
Well Being
Associated
Millions Of Years
Spaces
Suited
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We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
Charles Lindbergh / Aviator
Danger
Natural Environment
Grave
Millions Of Years
Produced
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More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Millions
Millions Of Years
More And More
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
Louis Leakey / Archaeologist
America
Existence
Islands
Millions
South America
Years
Africa
Crossed
Island
Millions Of Years
Sometime
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
Donald Johanson / Anthropologist
Excited
Humans
Ideas
Millions
Years
Africa
Tremendous
Millions Of Years
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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner / Psychologist
Believe
Brain
Different
Different Kinds
Etc
Millions
Musical
Spatial
Years
Believe World I Believe
Content
Over
Millions Of Years
Numerical
Responsive
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There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.
George M. Church / Geneticist
Expressed
Good Thing
Millions Of Years
Scientists
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As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Animal
Campfire
Juicy
Millions
Needs
Sat
Social
Tales
Whispering
Years
Animals
Everyone
Around
Connect
Exchange
Millions Of Years
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We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.
Anohni /
Creation
Destiny
Environment
Hands
Hitting
Manifest
Millions
Mother
Next
Sandbox
Collectively
Millions Of Years
Move
Ruin
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Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
Andrew Weil / Medical Doctor
Adapted
Beneficial
Human Beings
Millions
Needed
Perfect
Would Be
Years
Absorb
Beings
Bodies
Complex
Ignore
Millions Of Years
Plants
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Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky / Scientist
Atmosphere
Increase
Millions
Surface
Weak
Extent
Millions Of Years
Oceans
Transform
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We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
David Grinspoon /
Circles
Inventing
Reinventing
Species
Survived
Enlarging
Millions Of Years
New Technologies
Structures
Technologies
Wiped
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Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance of our Earth. Upset the balance and the consequences are disastrous.
Amala Akkineni /
Ecological
Integrated
Serving
Upset
Creature
Disastrous
Important Part
Millions Of Years
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
Harald Zur Hausen /
Decades
Evolution
Hiv
Human Race
Humans
Likelihood
Accompanying
Early Days
Infectious
Millions Of Years
Recent
Types
Whereas
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If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.
Matthew Walker /
Eight
Idiotic
Millions
Mother Nature
Percent
Six
Years Ago
Millions Of Years
Survive
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson / Biologist
Descendants
Destruction
Diversity
Folly
Loss
Millions
Natural
Process
Species
Years
Now
Take
Correct
Forgive
Genetic
Habitats
Least
Likely
Millions Of Years
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Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material.
Andy Muschietti /
Contact
Mythology
Explore
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Millions Of Years
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Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Home
Men
Hunting
Linked
Millions
Skills
Testosterone
Women Are
Good Women Men
Low
Millions Of Years
Sign
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Century
Creatures
Millions
Percent
Sharks
Tuna
Turtles
Whales
Years
Depleted
Gulf
Large
Millions Of Years
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The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
Lynn Margulis / Biologist
Differences
Genes
Mammals
Millions
People
Species
Urgency
Years
All People
Drive
Evolutionary
Imperative
Mate
Millions Of Years
Persists
Reproduce
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When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow.
Kip Thorne / Physicist
Black
Black Hole
Differences
Enormous
Fall
Flow
Millions
Inside
Seen
Fraction
Hole
Millions Of Years
Pounding
Second
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We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.
Pranav Mistry /
Mankind
Perceive
Senses
Accumulate
Huge Amount
Millions Of Years
Stored
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
Ramez Naam / Manager
Damage
Species
Unwind
Millions Of Years
Oceans
Scars
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We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
Edith Widder / Oceanographer
Ocean
Compounds
Millions
Representing
Benefit
Discoveries
Explored
Millions Of Years
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The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
Irene Joliot-Curie / Scientist
Atoms
Disappearance
Half Life
Substance
According
Characteristic
Fraction
Fundamental
Millions Of Years
Varies
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For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth.
Norman Geisler / Philosopher
Belief
Intuition
Millions
Omnipotent
Powerful
Seems
Taken
God Faith Believe
Based
Certainly
Millions Of Years
Reasons
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I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.
Alastair Reynolds / Author
Arthur
Scope
Love Time Space
Cemented
Clarke
Encounter
Love Space Time
Millions Of Years
Pal
Space And Time
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
David Suzuki / Professor
Climate
Community
Conditions
Garden
Indigenous
Insects
Millions
Native
Rely
Soil
Species
Wildlife
Years
Birds
Communities
Gardens
Increasingly
Local
Millions Of Years
Planting
Thousands
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We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
Serj Tankian / Singer-Songwriter
Civilization
Humanity
Indigenous
Millions
Years
According
Concept
Millions Of Years
Planet
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
Edith Widder / Oceanographer
Ocean
Compounds
Discovery
Representing
Years
Benefit
Discoveries
Explored
Millions Of Years
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There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.
Greg Graffin / Musician
Millions
Species
Staying
Staying Power
Characterize
Criterion
Evolutionary
Fluke
Infants
Millions Of Years
Persists
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Thich Nhat Hanh /
Civilisation
Cosmos
Destroyed
Millions
Life Time Will
Geological
Millions Of Years
Resume
Urgently
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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Space
Appearance
Maintaining
Millions
Moon
Night
Occasional
Planets
Stars
Sun
Together
Years
Space Stars Look
Asteroid
Comet
Dynamic
Galaxies
Immutable
Indeed
Meteor
Millions Of Years
Overall
Seem
Thousands
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Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just a squat bulge in the middle of the desert, essentially just debris from a bigger, stronger mountain that erupted millions of years ago and hurled its broken pieces into piles across the earth.
John D'agata / Essayist
Bigger
Broken
Debris
Desert
Far Away
Middle
Millions
Mountain
Squat
Stronger
Years Ago
Across
Essentially
Large
Millions Of Years
Piles
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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Baby
Children
Husband
Millions
Mother
Village
Babies
Exactly
Millions Of Years
Mothers
Partner
Raise
Rear
Supposed
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For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Ocean
Air
Atmosphere
Forests
Including
Millions
Seasons
Species
Temperature
Water
Weather
Years
Allow
Nearly
Flourish
Great Gift
Large
Millions Of Years
Oceans
Planet
Precisely
Whose
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
Hans Adolf Krebs /
Evolution
Existence
Features
Organisms
Stem
According
Forms
Circumstance
Concept
Evolved
Gradually
Millions Of Years
Relations
Simpler
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All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
Peter Diamandis / Physician
Human Species
Linear
Species
Life World Your
Life World Nothing
Evolving
Millions Of Years
Thinkers
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The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the palace; islands are smaller rooms. Each room has its own decor and unique inhabitants; many of the rooms have been sealed off for millions of years. The doors in the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down.
Richard Preston / Writer
Continents
Doors
Islands
Rooms
Flung
Inhabitants
Millions Of Years
Palace
Sealed
Smaller
The Doors
Walls
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The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So on Venus, you're seeing features, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old on the surface. On Earth, we do not see any surface features nearly that old - you only see much more recent features.
David Grinspoon /
Erosion
Features
Venus
Due
Hundreds
Millions Of Years
Partly
Recent
Virtually
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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Animal
Contrary
Evolution
Human Beings
Millions
Needs
Understanding
Years
Animals
Beings
Course
Exist
Created
Fossil
Record
Meet
Millions Of Years
Scientific
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