Appearance Quote by Jonathan Haidt

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

— Michio Kaku

If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a…

— Noam Chomsky

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn…

— Lynn Margulis

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of rough hairs…

— Carl Sagan

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

— David Papineau

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

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large…

— John Tyler Bonner

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

— Robert Winston

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very…

— Charles Darwin