"The earliest and most primitive known members of……" — George Gaylord Simpson
"The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed."
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29 Quotes by George Gaylord Simpson
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The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must…
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To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he…
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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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