Biological evolution Quote by Douglas J. Futuyma

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the…

— Ernst Mayr

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

— Hendrik Poinar

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our…

— Ray Kurzweil

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution…

— Lee Spetner

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally -…

— Annalee Newitz

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving and reproducing…

— Richard Dawkins

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous