Biology Quote by James Lovelock

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“an organism's selective environment is constantly crumbling beneath its evolutionary feet”

— Russell Powell Allen Buchanan

“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

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

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

— James Lovelock

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous

“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in almost endless…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up…

— Richard Dawkins

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom