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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

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have…

— Richard Dawkins

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils. They have…

— Bill Nye

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

— Richard Leakey

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this,…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces…

— Jacques Monod

We are fossils in the making.

— Wallace Stegner

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this…

— Ernst Mayr