Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates… — Enoch Copy Share Image
“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
