Michael Crichton - Behavior Quotes

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For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Michael Crichton

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Michael Crichton

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost—they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

Michael Crichton

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.

Michael Crichton