Doe Quote by Konrad Lorenz

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

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good…

— Charles Darwin

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and…

— John Tyler Bonner

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

— Levi Strauss

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

Choice is a signature of our species.

— Diane Ackerman

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

— Jared Diamond

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned…

— Robert Ardrey

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

— Jonas Salk

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

— Gary Zukav