“When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.” MayHardMightWould BeNaturalQualityEnvironmentEvolutionAdvantageRateStrokesIrrelevantSelectionAdaptationNatural SelectionHabitatCompetitive Advantage Author:Ian Tattersall
“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.” AbleNaturalCasesCenturyTheoryEvolutionMythSelectionTwentieth CenturyNatural SelectionTheory Of Evolution Author:Michael Denton
“Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.” ProcessNaturalDesignEvolutionOrganismsSelectionNatural Selection Book:How the Mind Works Source: How the Mind Works
“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.” ProcessNaturalViewsStudyStudentsEvolutionArgumentAccountsPaidDataPreservesExpertsFancySelectionFossilsNatural SelectionStasis Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process” PurposeCausesProcessEvolutionEconomicsFinalsInstructionSelection Author:Gerald Edelman
“The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.” PeopleHas BeensScienceNaturalForgetTheoryEvolutionObservationParenthoodModestSelectionAdoptedDistinguishedGeneticsEcologicalNatural SelectionTheory Of Evolution Author:John L. Harper
“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.” MenKindFactsWould BeLyingEasyNaturalDoubtWorstEffectsObjectsEvolutionEssentialsAddPopulationNo DoubtElsewherePersistSelectionNatural SelectionBacteriaMutationMutants Author:Pierre-Paul Grasse