“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“is an assemblage of organic algorithms shaped by natural selection over millions of years of evolution. 2. Algorithmic calculations are not affected… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies -… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and stiff necks. Women paid extra. An upright gait required narrower… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we… — Moxie Mezcal Copy Share Image
In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“senile decay is simply a by-product of the accumulation in the gene pool of late-acting lethal and semi-lethal genes, which have been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation… — Billy Roper Copy Share Image
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
