Adaptation Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot…

— David Attenborough

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features…

— Stephen Jay Gould

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.”

— Amit Ray

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence…

— Richard Dawkins

Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within…

— Elliott Sober

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

— Richard Dawkins

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick