Create Quote by Lynn Margulis Download Open image “Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.” — Lynn Margulis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Create Eliminates Maybe Natural Natural selection Nature Selection
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as it becomes,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator. — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life? — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
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