Quotes About Adaptation

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.

Bekleneni ve uygun olan? ya?amak kolayd?r. Beklenmeyeni ya?ad???n?zda hayattan zevk almaya ba?lars?n?z.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people.

Currently a controversial topic, evolutionary

mistakes are really not that big of a deal. in fact , as most of us acknowledge we need to make mistakes in order to learn and grow

Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.

Most of us spend too much time wishing that people would be other than they are.

I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

The woman you marry is never the same woman you divorce.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own.

Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . . . Natural selection . . . is a non-random force, pushing towards improvement. . . . Every generation has its Darwinian failures but every individual is descended only from previous generations' successful minorities. . . . [T]here can be no going downhill - species can't get worse as a prelude to getting better. . . . There may be more than one peak.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.

The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.