#evolution

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go

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

#change #consequence #consists #described #diversification

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

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claim #claimed #does #evolutionary #founder

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. ↗

— John McCain

#believe #canyon #evolution #god #grand

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century

There is grandeur in this view of life .... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#beauty

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#capitalists #i #marxists #promote #revolution