Fossil Record Quotes
23 quotes by 17 authors
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings…
— Ernst Mayr
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,…
— Lynn Margulis
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow…
— Simon Conway Morris
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I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that…
— David Pilbeam
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this…
— David Berlinski
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Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear…
— Ernst Mayr
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Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical…
— Niles Eldredge
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian…
— David M. Raup
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but…
— David M. Raup
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In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,…
— Jonathan Clements
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The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
— D. V. Ager
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The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is…
— Peter Singer
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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a…
— Carl Sagan
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Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
Who Wrote These Fossil Record Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 23 Fossil Record Quotes as follows: