Descendants Quote by Richard Leakey

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within…

— E. O. Wilson

Natural selection is not evolution.

— Ronald Fisher

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large…

— John Tyler Bonner

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

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

— Gerald Edelman

“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no mystery about…

— Richard Dawkins

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first…

— Carl Sagan

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those…

— Randolph M. Nesse

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a…

— Eckhart Tolle

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes…

— Richard Dawkins

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I…

— Lynn Margulis