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Evolution Quotes by Ernst Mayr
- Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
- Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings…
- According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence…
- Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,…
- Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is…
- New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the…
- As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two…
- Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
- anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural…
- Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the…
- A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote…
- A species consists of a group of populations which replace each other geographically or ecologically and of which the neighboring ones integrate or hybridise wherever…
- The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some…
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