Biology Quote by John Maynard Smith

We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have…

— Richard Lewontin

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

— David Quammen

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate…

— Elliott Sober

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the…

— Ernst Mayr

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

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species…

— David Deutsch

“EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in those traits;…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations…

— B. F. Skinner

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk