Darwin natural selection quotes:

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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. -- Daniel Dennett
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. -- Richard Dawkins
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection. -- Mark Carwardine
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting. -- Charles Jencks
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. -- Charles Darwin
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. -- Jared Diamond
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. -- Elliott Sober

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