"Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection."

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

#Ideas Quotes #Littles Quotes #Ancestry Quotes

“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .”
“An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.”
“How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.”
“I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.”
“What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. Itâ€™s what it does for people on the inside. Itâ€™s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves lifeâ€™s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.”

Source : Millard Fuller (1995). “Simple Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The journey is the treasure.”
“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

Source : John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr
“I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.”

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