"Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest."

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Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin

William H. Calvin

#Uplifting Quotes #Moving Quotes #Years Quotes

“To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
“Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.”
“I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.”
“Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”

Source : Craig Lucas (2014). “A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays”, p.50, Theatre Communications Group
“I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.”
“If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.”

Source : "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.
“I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.”

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