Areas Quote by Everett C. Olson

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification.…

— Karl Landsteiner

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution,…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on…

— Ernst Haeckel

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

— Anonymous

“Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.”

— Anonymous

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and…

— Thomas Kuhn

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different…

— Alice Roberts

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

— Boris Sidis

Linnaeus had it constantly in mind:'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the…

— Sten Lindroth

“and continually evolving both the structure”

— Michael A. Cusumano