"Adaptive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all organisms, subject to modifying influences.' They can show, he goes on (if I may venture to condense so great a thinker), that any existing plant or animal, placed under new conditions, begins to undergo adaptive changes of form and structure; that in successive generations these changes continue, till the plant or animal acquires totally new habits; that in cultivated plants and domesticated animals changes of the sort habitually occur; that the differences ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen |
