Chromosomes Quote by Richard Goldschmidt

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the…

— Ernst Mayr

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

“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

— Henry Gee

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot…

— Bob Waterston

“With the little changes that happen with reproduction, the configuration of your DNA and your genes can change for you and others in the…

— Bill Nye

“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be…

— William Bateson

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

— Wolfgang Smith

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part…

— Erasmus Darwin

“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

Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory…

— Michael Denton

“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

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

— Nancy Pearcey