“You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.” FactsTogetherThreeNaturalProduceOrganismsSelectionVariationNatural SelectionOffspringInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.” ThreeNaturalPrinciplesEnvironmentProgressProduceCreaturesClimateProductionsLocalsFactorsCosmicSelectionAdaptationInheritanceVariationNatural SelectionHabitat Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.” UseCertainImpossibleProduceMinesWidePrimariesRangeColourSelectionInsomnia Author:John Dyer
“... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.” IfsIndividualStrongNaturalChancePrinciplesStruggleProduceSakePreservationSelectionInheritanceVariationNatural SelectionBrevity Book:The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959 Source: The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959
“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.” IfsWorldSelfFactsTurnsStrongNaturalAnimalViewsProduceCommunicationOughtEvolutionDegreesFundamentalsFavorsNervousSpotsDeceptionMotiveUnconsciousSubtleDeceitBetrayAccurateConventionalSelf KnowledgeSelectionNaiveSelectSelf DeceptionNatural SelectionNervous SystemRendering Author:Robert Trivers
“Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.” NaturalStepsProduceSelectionVariationNatural SelectionModification Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)