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Genera Quotes by Asa Gray
- I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and…
- Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger…
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- The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester
- Botany is based on fixed genera. — Carl Linnaeus
- The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter
- It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson
- In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking
- The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus
- Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson