Capacity Quote by Noam Chomsky

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

— Sarah McLachlan

“EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in those traits;…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

— Jack Horner

“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding conditions as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any…

— Ronald Fisher

Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put…

— John Tyler Bonner

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

— Lynn Margulis

You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change.

— Leon Brown

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

“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck