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Evolutionary Quotes by Niles Eldredge
- Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed…
- Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of…
- If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing…
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- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma
- One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.… — Candace Pert
- Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make… — David Simon
- People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen
- The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through… — Fred Hoyle
- The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding