“By asking why, by seeking meaning (not in any final sense, but in the immediate sense of use or purpose), Darwin found… — Oliver Sacks 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
“But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff… — Richard Dawkins 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
“It all starts with the fact that thinking is expensive from the standpoint of natural selection,” Mitchell continues. “The brain consumes 20… — Rob Reid Copy Share Image
“There are a small number of debilitating conditions with a strong genetic basis, such as muscular dystrophy or Huntington’s disease. These are… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have long regarded intentionality as a puzzling phenomenon, for it is hard to see how it can arise in a purely… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
“When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection,… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade 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
“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
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett 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
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett 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
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse 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
“From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image