Biology Quote by Peter Watts

“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

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

— Ronald Fisher

Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions…

— Konrad Lorenz

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“an organism's selective environment is constantly crumbling beneath its evolutionary feet”

— Russell Powell Allen Buchanan

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

— Richard Dawkins

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should…

— Larry Niven

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to…

— Ernst Mayr