Cynthia Kenyon Quotes

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day.

I'm a Darwinian.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.