Advantages Quote by John Tyler Bonner

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure,…

— Charles Darwin

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

— Richard Koch

The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the medical scientists.…

— E. O. Wilson

“There are several types of comparative analysis for garnering evidence for an evolutionary adaptation: structural or behavioral resemblance in different phyletic lines owing to…

— Scott Atran

There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary…

— Brian Boyd

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be…

— Richard Owen

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

— Kevin Kelly

“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed immune systems…

— Edwin H. Friedman

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

— Kevin Kelly

The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the…

— Ray Lankester