We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“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
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
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“If efficient copying is adaptive, such that natural selection should favor greater and greater reliance on social as opposed to asocial learning,… — Kevin N Laland Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Anselm must have been out of his mind to think that the question ‘Does God exist?’ is a question about a predicate.… — Jim Riva Copy Share Image
“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its… — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
“The great value of the Darwinian evolutionary paradigm is the way it helps us understand how what once was "noise" (e.g., unselected-uncorrelated… — Terrence Deacon Copy Share Image
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional;… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that… — Steven Pinker 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
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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