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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


#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.


Paul D. Boyer


#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.


Edward Hall


#around #bit #bubble #complex #each

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.


Phillip E. Johnson


#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.


Kevin Kelly


#design #far #made #organisms #their

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.


E. O. Wilson


#almost #ants #insects #know #make

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.


Asa Gray


#did #found #life #living #manifested

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.


Jeremy Rifkin


#consequences #environmental #examined #genetically #hadn

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.


George G. Simpson


#exemplified #genera #gradual #large #organisms

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.


Kevin Kelly


#become #every #evident #evolution #evolving






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