190 Quotes About Adaptation

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

People lie to adapt...

I have got convictions, until i’ve got others.

That is a trick of human nature. We get used to things.

There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency transmitting utility meters. For these reasons I did not shield my home and took the route of adapting my body to the toxic electromagnetic environment.

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

الجسد أقدر من المعنويات على التأقلم. الجسد هو أوّل مَن يعتاد المواعيد الجديدة، ووضعياته الجديدة، وإيقاع احتياجاته الجديد، وتعبه، ومواعيد راحته الجديدة، وجديد ما يفعل وجديد ما لا يفعل

When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.