"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified……" — George Gaylord Simpson

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• The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation… — Julian Huxley
• The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this… — Douglas J. Futuyma
• If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man,… — Leonard Bloomfield
• In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light,… — Michio Kaku
• The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has… — Margot Adler
• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. — Ibrahim Babangida
• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact… — Auberon Waugh
• It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all… — E. Haldeman-Julius
• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is… — Niall Ferguson
• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. — J. William Fulbright
• The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman
• The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if… — Peter R. Grant

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