Fine Quote by Charles Darwin

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.”

— David Kitts

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave…

— Steven M. Stanley

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record…

— Anonymous

“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which…

— Charles Darwin

“I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of…

— Charles Darwin

There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others,…

— Carl Linnaeus

The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the…

— David Lack

At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it…

— Charles Darwin

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually…

— Ernst Mayr