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Cane toads are not just disturbingly large; from a human perspective, they’re also ugly, with bony heads and what looks like a leering expression. The trait that makes them truly “hated,” though, is that they’re toxic. When an adult is bitten or feels threatened, it releases a milky goo that swims with heart-stopping compounds. Dogs often suffer ca

Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky

This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin • On the origin of species

evolution

Michael Dean • 11 cards

Evolution is what happens when patterns that used to define survival become deadly.

Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

The same with cancer therapy: quite often cancer cells that manage to survive the toxicity of chemotherapy and radiation reproduce faster and take over the void made by the weaker cells.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

Even worse, as I have shown in Antifragile, the fragility of the system’s components (provided they are renewable and replaceable) is required to ensure the solidity of the system as a whole. If humans were immortals, they would go extinct from an accident, or from a gradual buildup of misfitness. But shorter shelf life for humans allows genetic ch

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Human diseases are repeatedly explained to us in terms of their chemical or genetic makeup; meanwhile, we’ve completely ignored the load profile that the function of our body depends upon. As far-fetched as this may sound, we, like these floppy-finned orcas, are animals in captivity, and our tissues are not suited to the loads created through the w

Katy Bowman • Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, twenty-three became extinct.2

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, twenty-three became extinct.2 A large number of smaller species also disappeared. Food chains throughout the entire Australian ecosystem were broken and rearranged. It was the most important transformation o... See more