Evolutionary Change Quotes
- Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
- The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr
- Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
- The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution… — Ronald Fisher
- The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. — Jack Horner
- I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it… — Lynn Margulis
- Nanotechnology will be responsible for the largest evolutionary change in mankind. Life as we know it 'will' become extinct. Humans will be cured. — Carl Stoynoff