Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins

“The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.”

— Richard Dawkins

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

— Lewis Thomas

Survival is a genetic law.

— Gaspar Noe

“Death is the final genetic instruction in the algorithm of Life.”

— Joey Lawsin

The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry…

— Danny Boyle

“Death is only relevant to "genetic adaptation" insofar as it relates to the capacity for self-reproduction (what is relevant is not that an individual…

— Mitchell Heisman

“There are always losers in the genetic lottery”

— Ashby

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in…

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.”

— Ron Sanders

“We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with…

— Richard Dawkins

“Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess”

— Samer Chidiac

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

— Richard Dawkins