Achieve Quote by David Papineau

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very…

— Charles Darwin

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large…

— John Tyler Bonner

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

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those…

— Randolph M. Nesse

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

— Lynn Margulis

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