Disproportion Quote by Asa Gray

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

— Brian Aldiss

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small,…

— Asa Gray

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed…

— Ernst Mayr

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created…

— Charles Lyell

Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance…

— Amala Akkineni

“For the entire course of evolution leading from our primitive mammalian forebears of a hundred million years ago to the single lineage that threaded…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it…

— Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once…

— Elliott Sober

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every…

— Aristotle

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

— Sylvia Earle

“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light…

— Elizabeth Kolbert