Ancestry Quote by Elliott Sober

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection.…

— Elliott Sober

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry…

— Jeff Hawkins

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard…

— Michael Behe

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record,…

— Francis Collins

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

— Spencer Wells

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between…

— Charles Darwin

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral…

— Richard Dawkins

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

— Alex Haley

It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of…

— Jerry A. Coyne

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

— Carol Kane