Between Quote by James Gleick

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

— Peter R. Grant

Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Communication, according to Maturana, is not primarily a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior between living organisms.”

— Fritjof Capra

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may…

— Paul Stamets

“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes that can…

— Dennis Bray

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time…

— Biz Stone

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us…

— Carl Woese

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave…

— Timothy Leary

“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

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals…

— Bruce H. Lipton

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