Tag: natural selection
4 quotes
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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A self is an individually evolved—I use the word ‘evolved’ on purpose—product of a variety of natural selection that trains up the emotional drivers in each of us and achieves a level of balance. It’s an entente. It’s a ruse of sorts…
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless…
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Two conflicting tendencies can be seen throughout the biological world: individuality and collective behavior. Natural selection operates on differences among individuals, rewarding those who perform better. Nonetheless, even within this milieu,…