“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully ‘designed’ to catch prey animals, while… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“How did ears get their start? Any piece of skin can detect vibrations if they come in contact with vibrating objects. This… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“Collins’s understanding of the Fox-Hedgehog parable is questionable from the start. He suggests that people who have had the greatest impact on… — Philip M. Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
“The rather uncomfortable feeling most of us have when we're around snakes is evidence of how this ancient experience continues to influence… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
“We can now expose perhaps the most common misunderstanding of Darwinism: the idea that Darwin showed that evolution by natural selection is… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Today, white-collar job insecurity is no longer a function of the business cycle--rising as the stock market falls and declining again when… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“progress—like those cartoons that begin with an ape and end with a man sitting at a computer—now gets lost in a hundred… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
“The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
