Certain Quote by E. O. Wilson

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

— David Papineau

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

Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be…

— John B. S. Haldane

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

— Richard Dawkins

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties…

— Francois Jacob

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 may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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 advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

— Isaac Asimov

“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.”

— Richard Dawkins

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as…

— Michael Behe

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to…

— Ernst Mayr