Ancestor Quote by John Reader

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

— Richard Leakey

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts…

— Thomas Huxley

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more…

— David M. Raup

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories…

— Anonymous

“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

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the…

— Elaine Morgan

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record…

— Richard Dawkins

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive…

— Roderick Murchison