Alternative-history Quote by Lloyd Pye

I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use…

— David Pilbeam

“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.”

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“The fossil record quietly accounts for me...”

— Donald Revell

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.”

— Joe Quirk

“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure…

— Robert Heinlein

“If the world and all its species of animals and plants were created at once by some supernatural force or event, we might expect…

— Bill Nye

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck