The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

- Ian Tattersall

Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

- Ian Tattersall

Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imagina…

- Ian Tattersall

When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When …

- Ian Tattersall

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

- Ian Tattersall

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Con…

- Ian Tattersall