Sexual Selection Quotes

#1. Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals.

Charles Darwin

#2. Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species.

Charles Darwin

#4. Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Peter R. Grant

#5. I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Damien Hirst

#6. A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

Holly Black

#7. Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

Fela Durotoye

#8. Tighten your seat belt and enjoy the ride of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Geoffrey Miller

#10. Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition.

Alan F. Dixson

#11. This life is but one breath in the life of the soul. If the soul lives forever, then what's your hurry?

Douglas James Cottrell

#12. It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.

William Tyndale

#13. The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#14. Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Jess Walter

#15. Arrived - he desires nothing, because he is superior to all desire, because he has everything, because he is satiated, because he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky