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- 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…
- 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…
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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… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author