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What Evolution Is QUOTES

1 " The searching human mind is not satisfied merely to discover facts. We also want to know how things happen and why. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

2 " And it is this randomness of variation that is responsible for the enormous, often quite bizarre diversity of the living world. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

3 " A plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on the moisture "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

4 " No amphibian succeeded in adapting to salt water. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

5 " Actually, the entire ascent of life can be presented as an adaptive radiation in the time dimension. From the beginning of replicating molecules to the formation of membrane-bounded cells, the formation of chromosomes, the origin of nucleated eukaryotes, the formation of multicellular organisms, the rise of endothermy, and the evolution of a large and highly complex central nervous system, each of these steps permitted the utilization of a different set of environmental resources, that is, the occupation of a different adaptive zone. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

6 " No one could have predicted that a defenseless, slow-moving biped should become the pinnacle of Creation. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

7 " Some insignificant and probably nocturnal mammals also survived and experienced in the Paleocene and Eocene a spectacular radiation, producing all the orders and many of the families of the now living mammals. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

8 " Therefore, it came as a terrible shock to the Victorian age when Darwin, following his theory of common descent, incorporated the human species into the animal kingdom as a descendant of primate ancestors. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

9 " To use the molecular clock in such a way requires the calibration of its “ticking rate. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

10 " The principle of adaptationism has been adopted so widely by Darwinians because it is such a heuristic methodology. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

11 " This uneven rate of evolution of different properties of an organism is called mosaic evolution , and it may create difficulties for classification. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is

12 " Furthermore, it is observed in general that the smaller the population size of a species is, the more vulnerable it will be to extinction. "

― Ernst W. Mayr , What Evolution Is