Environment Quote by Larry Niven

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

— Terry Pratchett

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very…

— Terry Pratchett

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were…

— George Gaylord Simpson

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance…

— Amala Akkineni

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

“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

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I…

— Lynn Margulis

“Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most…

— Mike Judge