Accumulation Quote by Lynn Margulis

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

“Evolution wasn’t a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. And the doctor knew those were few…

— Evan C. Currie

“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.”

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher

The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.

— W. R. Thompson

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change…

— Michael Crichton

“He believed that the mutations were manifestations of the ancient past he had written about—evidence of a genetic code that was not completely eradicated.”

— E.B. Hudspeth

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for the proof…

— William Bateson

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make…

— Lynn Margulis

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved…

— Mark Twain

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind…

— Richard Dawkins