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Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of…

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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange…
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of…
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of…
The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a…
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery…
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human…
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,… — Rajneesh
It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species. — Richard Goldschmidt
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Unknown Author
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of… — Paulo Coelho
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick

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