Evolution Quote by Marco del Giudice

“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become damaged or…

— Marco del Giudice

A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Development never truly ends, as our brains evolved to evolve...we are adapted to adapt, to continually redefine normality, transforming ones space of possibility with…

— Beau Lotto

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“You are a side effect of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

— John Green

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite…

— Gary Wolf

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

— Stephen Jay Gould