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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
- In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Unknown Author
- Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam
- The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore
- Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology. — Stephen Jay Gould
- The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates… — Enoch
- We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such… — Michael Shermer
- Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam
- A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup
- I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a… — Stephen Jay Gould
- The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our… — Stephen Jay Gould
- We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White