John Arthur Thomson Quote

Every creature is a bundle of adaptations. Indeed, as Weismann says of the whale, "When we take away the adaptations, what have we left?"


Evolution, Chapter III (p. 97), Henry Holt & Co. 1911


Every creature is a bundle of adaptations. Indeed, as Weismann says of the whale, When we take away the adaptations, what have we left?

Every creature is a bundle of adaptations. Indeed, as Weismann says of the whale, When we take away the adaptations, what have we left?

Every creature is a bundle of adaptations. Indeed, as Weismann says of the whale, When we take away the adaptations, what have we left?

Every creature is a bundle of adaptations. Indeed, as Weismann says of the whale, When we take away the adaptations, what have we left?