Accumulation Quote by Richard Goldschmidt

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].

— Richard Goldschmidt

“Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies - the Thesis…

— Jon Morrison

“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a…

— Scott F. Gilbert

“While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be.”

— Bob Beasley

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of…

— Ernst Mayr

It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations.…

— Richard Goldschmidt

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

— Julian Huxley

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

— David Quammen

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

— Nina Fedoroff