Biology Quote by Russell Powell Allen Buchanan

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. That is the engine that drives…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or…

— Alice Roberts

“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is likely to…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

— James Lovelock

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nature doesn’t see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That’s the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to…

— Blake Crouch

“Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who…

— Peter Watts

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by…

— Aldous Huxley

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

— Alfred North Whitehead