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

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

Ian Tattersall

#Hominids Quotes #Adapted Quotes

“There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course...”
“Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121, 1999.
“Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum”
“Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?”
“The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.”
“Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.”
“There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned”
“Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2010

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