Ancestor Quote by Francis Collins

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

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this,…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to do with…

— Jerry A. Coyne

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch…

— Daniel Dennett

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have…

— Richard Dawkins

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

“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

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

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was…

— Richard Dawkins

“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn