8 Quotes by George Williams

• Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
• The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
• The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
• Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
• Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
• I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
• I am convinced that it is the light and the way.
• Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

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