Biology Quote by Konrad Lorenz

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means…

— Charles Darwin

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

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

“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.”

— Jacob Bronowski

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

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to…

— B. F. Skinner

In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the…

— Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

— Jared Diamond