92 Quotes About Natural-selection
- Author Charles Darwin
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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- Author enlatia
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-...Why do you uglify yourself? You are beautiful too.”-I could be more beautiful, but I fell victim to natural selection.
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- Author Thomm Quackenbush
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When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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Natural selection,” in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of “the struggle for life” when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator’s power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.
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- Author 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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- Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
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- Author Lewis Thomas
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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
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