Adaptation Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“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

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

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

— Stephen Jay Gould

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

— Charles Darwin

“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

“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a forgetful one.…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

— John Laroche

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

— Jessica Hagedorn

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

— John Dewey

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

— John Tooby

“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