Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
“By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out. — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it,… — Stephen Chbosky 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
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival… — Leilani Munter Copy Share Image
Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. — Tabare Vazquez Copy Share Image
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
