Barbarians Quote by Jean Shepherd

Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same…

— Eugene Dubois

“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

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“If Darwin is right, Agassiz argued, then we should find not just one or a few missing links, but innumerable links shading almost imperceptibly…

— Stephen C. Meyer

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual…

— Ernst Mayr

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

— Charles Darwin

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here…

— Charles Darwin

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than apes?

— Rock Cowles

“Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other…

— Edward Babinski

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

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