“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain… — Charles Doolittle Walcott Copy Share Image
“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.” — David Kitts Copy Share Image
“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
“There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
