#species

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. ↗

— Hugh Lofting

#always #been #children #classify #distinct

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#only #species #towards #valid #voyage

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#change #changes #driving #fundamentally #human

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. ↗

— Richard Owen

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In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

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