Quotes about Natural selection

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While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next s — Peter Watts, Blindsight
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as — Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of b — Edward Tatum
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increa — Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radi — Steven Magee
The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one th — Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the tox — Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itsel — Richard Dawkins
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she — Ian McEwan, Atonement
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikel — Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an — Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin sel — Robert Wright
Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as “grossly immoral.” Having no foresig — Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have mixed up ultimate cau — Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been p — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
The arms race between [predators] and [prey] is asymmetric, in which success on either side is felt as failure by the ot — Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selec — Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary cha — Ernst F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed