Animal Quote by Erasmus Darwin

“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited by later…

— Terrell Carver

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological…

— Stephen Jay Gould

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of…

— Ernst Mayr

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved…

— Mark Twain

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.”

— Mark Twain

“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of…

— David C. Stove

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the…

— Richard Goldschmidt

The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,

— Errol White

“Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies - the Thesis…

— Jon Morrison

“All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still have profound,…

— Thomas Hayden

“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

— Henry Gee