Speciation Quotes

9 quotes by 6 authors

• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
• 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… — Ernst Mayr
• The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the… — Rupert Sheldrake
• Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
• 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
• If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to… — Stephen Jay Gould
• The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange. — Peter R. Grant
• I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations. — Ernst Mayr
• N Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe… — Ernst Mayr

Who Wrote These Speciation Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 9 Speciation Quotes as follows:

• 3 Speciation Quotes by Ernst Mayr
• 2 Speciation Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Speciation Quote by Peter R. Grant
• 1 Speciation Quote by Lynn Margulis
• 1 Speciation Quote by Rupert Sheldrake
• 1 Speciation Quote by Jane Goodall