Biology Quote by Ernst Mayr

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

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

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part…

— Erasmus Darwin

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 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

Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and…

— Ken Wilber

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of…

— Richard Goldschmidt

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

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

— Salma Hayek

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

— Julian Huxley