Acquisition Quote by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an…

— Charles Darwin

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence,…

— Charles Darwin

The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed…

— Fritz Muller

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature known as "conservation" - not the practice of man's invention…

— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties…

— Francois Jacob

“Those natural designs that survive to reproduce pass on their genes. Those that don’t successfully reproduce disappear; their genes disappear as well.”

— Bill Nye

During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to…

— Roderick Murchison

If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety…

— James Hutton

“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded…

— Richard J. Borden