Hypothesis Quote by Charles Lyell

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

— Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

— Louis Leakey

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the…

— Elaine Morgan

“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.”

— Elaine Morgan

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on…

— Alfred Wegener

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils. They have…

— Bill Nye

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and…

— Charles Darwin

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa…

— Louis Leakey

Why there has been a great many studies of the hundreds of stone circles to be found on the British Isles?

— Anonymous

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s…

— Geoffrey Hinton