Aggressive Quote by Bruce Chatwin

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so.…

— Bruce Chatwin

I think humans are migratory animals.

— Lawrence Osborne

“MIGRATION IS ANOTHER TRADE-OFF. Birds that migrate have smaller brains than their sedentary relatives. This makes sense, as a brain that consumes a lot…

— Jennifer Ackerman

Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So,…

— Seth Shostak

The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be…

— Charles Darwin

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

— Michio Kaku

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

— James Lovelock

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply…

— George C. Williams

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler

“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of the organism…

— Lee Spetner

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

“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a…

— Scott F. Gilbert