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Natural selection Quotes

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law"

"Fear can be good. It’s an evolutionary sense that we’ve developed over many, many millions of years."

"We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here"

"I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection"

"Natural selection is anything but random."

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception"

"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work."

"The process of natural selection is smarter than you are."

"We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness"

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"

"Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense"

"In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced."

"Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism."

"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes"

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."

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