“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image