Ability Quote by Elliott Sober

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary…

— Michael Pollan

The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some…

— Elliott Sober

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that it seeks…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

“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

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies…

— John Maynard Smith

“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a…

— Scott F. Gilbert

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in…

— Kevin Kelly

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any…

— Ronald Fisher

“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.”

— Ron Sanders

“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