Canon Quote by Charles Darwin

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates;…

— Charles Darwin

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means…

— Charles Darwin

“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up…

— Richard Dawkins

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee

“Earth natives didn’t absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They…

— Anne Bishop

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of…

— Konrad Lorenz

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as…

— Charles Darwin

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history…

— Herbert Spencer

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

— Nicholas Wade

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can be preserved…

— Philip Freeman