Biology Quote by Terrell Carver

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part…

— Erasmus Darwin

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of…

— Ernst Mayr

“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He realized that…

— Bill Nye

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

— Jared Diamond

“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an evolutionary biologist,…

— Ernst Mayr

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ] to the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the…

— Margot Datz

“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was invented by…

— N.T. Wright

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright