Quotes by Lee Spetner

“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some c...”

“There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolu...”

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. Thi...”

“Verbal arguments should always be suspect.”

“Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions, I should qualify everything I say with hedging phrases such as...”

“Dawkins mentioned two mechanisms: the theory of the primeval soup and the Cairns-Smith theory. He discussed the latter in some detail. Since no one has computed, for either theory, the chances of t...”

“Information and complexity go hand in hand.”

“Dawkins mentioned two mechanisms: the theory of the ‘primeval soup’ and the Cairns-Smith theory. He discussed the latter in some detail. Since no one has computed, for either theory, the chances of...”