#organisms

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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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

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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

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People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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