Adaptation Quote by John Tooby

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary…

— Michael Pollan

“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a forgetful one.…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by…

— Aldous Huxley

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

— Elliott Sober

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick

“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

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

— Robert Nozick

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

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

— James Lovelock

Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions…

— Konrad Lorenz