Adapting Quote by George Gaylord Simpson

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

— Terry Pratchett

“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

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species…

— Jean M. Auel

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very…

— Terry Pratchett

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

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

— Charlie Brooker

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

— Edwin Catmull

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should…

— Larry Niven

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

— Frances Arnold

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

— Stephen Jay Gould