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• we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
  I do not doubt that natural selection acted in building our oversized brains -- and I am equally confidant that our brains became large as an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting functions)....
• Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as conscious selection.
  We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be....
• WAR: Hi-tech natural selection.
• Seat belt laws interfere with natural selection.
• In arguing that current theories of brain function cast suspicion on ESP
  psychokinesis, reincarnation, and so on, I am frequently challenged with the most popular of all neuro-mythologies -- the notion that we ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brains....
• I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink.
  .. and then natural selection reared its ugly head....
• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
  -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- The Origin of Species, Chap. iii...
• The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture.
  They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world....
• We delivered our child via natural childbirth, the procedure invented by a man named Lamaze--the Marquis de Lamaze, a disciple of Dr.
  Josef Mengele, who concluded that women could counteract the incredible pain of childbirth through breathing....