Paleontologists Quotes

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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
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
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… — Niles Eldredge
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone… — Niles Eldredge
Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of… — Alan Feduccia
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved… — George Gaylord Simpson
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… — Jane Goodall
Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a… — Ron Peterson

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