Association Quote by Francois Jacob

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I…

— Lynn Margulis

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has…

— Charles Darwin

“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

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

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

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

— John Henry Holland

The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part,…

— Charles Darwin