Quotes About Selection

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don't know why you and not someone else.

course. There was only one spare seat in the whole room, and we already

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

recruiting is like romance, and employment is like marriage. As

recruiting is like romance, and employment is like marriage.

Strategy is making trade-offs in competing. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Madem tüm seçenekler saçma, o zaman gelin en asilini seçelim." - Flaubert

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Evolution by natural selection requires the copying of genetic records and the construction of proteins, but these processes themselves had to originate somehow.

Marc Kirschner and his Berkeley colleague John Gerhart.20 They wondered whether modern creatures have cellular and developmental mechanisms with the characteristic of what is called evolvability. That is, do they have the ability to generate heritable phenotypic variation? And is the characteristic of evolvability itself under selection pressure? That is, will biological systems that produce more phenotypic variations that can be passed on to their offspring be more

As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the context has a genetic basis. . . . In essence, the Baldwin effect is the evolution of the ability to respond optimally to a particular environment. Thus, genes for plasticity evolve, rather than genes for a particular phenotypic characteristic, although selection acts upon the phenotype.

Evolution does not just produce new species; it produces an increasing number of new species.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Ortak seçimi demek, bir bireyi, muhtemelen en yetkin (örne?in bilgili ve hünerli) ve i?birli?ine en yatk?n (örne?in üzerine dü?en i?i yapmaya ve pay?na dü?en kadar?n? almaya e?ilimli) olan? i?birli?i orta?? olarak tercih etmek demektir. Zorunlu i?birli?ine dayal? avc?l?k-toplay?c?l?k ba?lam?nda hiç kimse taraf?ndan seçilmemek elbette ki?inin ölümüne yol açacakt?r.

God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends.

Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

The Fire-Eaters were a special elite-level team that played after the regular season ended. They had top-notch training and the off-season games added a lot to a player's performance when the regular season rolled around. Problem? You can't join the Fire-Eaters. They have to pick you.

Belinda announced that she had secured four pulpits for Sundays in February and March where our "pre-candidates" would preach; if we only selected three pre-candidates, we'd have to find a speaker for the fourth. "Perhaps you'd like to dust off your preaching skills, Dana," she said. Though pleased, I said, "Oh dear god, let there be four pre-candidates.

It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.

The abandonment by his biological mother, his lost sister, the punishment he received from his adoptive mother and the fact that his two wives apparently refused him sex, correlated with Wilken's first selection of victims, namely the prostitutes.

Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?