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.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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