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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

- Simon Conway Morris
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The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.

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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.