Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of…

In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and…

— Earnest Hooton

“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you make a…

— Michael Crichton

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them.”

— Charles Doolittle Walcott

“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.”

— David Kitts

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even…

— Richard Fortey

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution…

— John G. D. Clark

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly…

— Leroy Hood

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless…

— Steven Pinker

I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange…

— Hamilton Jordan

Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one…

— Terrie Moffitt

“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.…

— Steven Magee