Adaptive Quote by Ernst Mayr

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

— Frances Arnold

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“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

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its…

— E. O. Wilson

“Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who…

— Peter Watts

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is likely to…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

— Cary Fowler

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

— James Lovelock