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• New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Successful

• Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Contingent

• As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Population, Fact

• According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Transformation

• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don’t understand about that nonsense. It’s like, all instruments are there to use all the time.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in People, Innovations

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Humans, Theory

• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Mankind

• Natural selection is not evolution.

  Ronald Fisher

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Natural

• I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

  Reed Hastings

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Television

• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Edward Thorndike

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Intellectual, Race

• Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Human

• For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Topics in Evolution, Life

  Tags in Human

• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  Walter Lang

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Earth

• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  Walter Lang

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Evolutionary

• In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  George Wald

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Invention

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it’s really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  Randy Newman

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Science, Anthropology

• The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Lies

• Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Evolution

• Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers’ rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody – government stay away.

  Esther Dyson

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Civil Liberties

• We’re in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

  James Levine

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Revolution, Midst