Neutral Theory

Neutral theory may refer to one of these two related theories:

  • the neutral theory of molecular evolution; or
  • the unified neutral theory of biodiversity.

Famous quotes containing the words neutral and/or theory:

    “I feel the carousel starting slowly
    And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
    Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
    Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
    Me on all sides, everywhere I look.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)