"Given the fact of evolution, one would expect……" — Ernst Mayr
"Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series."
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Ernst Mayr
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43 Quotes by Ernst Mayr
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any…
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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…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object…
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The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness…
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral…
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from…
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in…
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience…
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral…
— Kathy Reichs
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All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of…
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