"Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the……" — Theodosius Dobzhansky
"Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject."
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18 Quotes by Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel…
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Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would…
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
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The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an…
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Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
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No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices…
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The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
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Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it…
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An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into…
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Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science…
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
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