Adaptation Quote by Konrad Lorenz

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

— Ronald Fisher

“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

“Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who…

— Peter Watts

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

— John Laroche

“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

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

— Joe Barton

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

— John Tooby

In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or…

— Alice Roberts

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry