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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
I am very pleased with President Trump's selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
My mum always had an amazing selection of make-up, which I obviously applied badly, on a regular basis.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
Normcore doesn't equal wearing the first pair of jeans and T-shirt from your wardrobe. Behind dressing easy, lies a precise selection.
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.
I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
I have equal respect and love for both England and Ireland, and therefore, the national team I choose to represent is not a clear-cut, simple selection.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is exceptionally qualified to serve as President Trump's National Security Adviser, and I fully support his selection.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
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Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement
Shot selection is very important because you don't want to lose wickets at the start and put pressure on the rest of the side.
Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.
What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.
Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.
Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.
I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.
I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
You can look up "heart" and get 100,000 voices, but slowly the ones at the end are no longer credible, so there will be a selection in Web sites, too.
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
