Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.


Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 355 - Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be...

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be...

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be...

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be...