Adaptation Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the…

— Anonymous

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering…

— 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

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

— Stephen Jay Gould

When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up.…

— Ian Tattersall

“The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may…

— Steven Magee

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of…

— Elliott Sober

The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired…

— Charles Darwin