Advantage Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly…

— Konrad Lorenz

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a…

— Ernst Mayr

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 theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and…

— John Tyler Bonner

If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“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

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

— David Papineau

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

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives…

— Francis Galton