Biology Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form…

— Richard Dawkins

“You can't separate adaptability from evolution”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic…

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

“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

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,…

— Daniel E. Lieberman