Adaptation Quote by Thomas Huxley

“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that it seeks…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. That is the engine that drives…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

— Colson Whitehead

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution…

— Lee Spetner

“EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in those traits;…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

— Terry Pratchett

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

— Stephen Jay Gould