Arise Quote by B. F. Skinner

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

— Robert Ardrey

“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being…

— Robert Trivers

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

— David Quammen

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very…

— Charles Darwin

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

— B. F. Skinner

In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment,…

— Chris Adami

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making…

— B. F. Skinner

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock