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Natural Selection Quotes by Konrad Lorenz
- Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards…
- Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
More Natural Selection Quotes
- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins
- Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
- Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He… — Adolf Hitler
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde
- The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod
- Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
- Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its… — Hermann Joseph Muller
- We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher