Adaptation Quotes

204 quotes by 182 authors

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. — Michael Gazzaniga
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
One learns to itch where one can scratch. — Ernest Bramah
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within… — John Chancellor
It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live. — George Vaillant
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture… — Jerry Sabloff
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the… — Jacques Ellul
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… — Charles Darwin
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the… — Richard Owen
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised — Nicholas Stern
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants… — Mary Catherine Bateson
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for… — Albert Einstein
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong,… — Joaquin Phoenix
Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect. — Hans Asperger

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