Change Quote by Lynn Margulis

In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of…

— Michael Denton

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree…

— Densey Clyne

The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.

— Michael Ball

“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving and reproducing…

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

— John Polkinghorne

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

— Edmund Beecher Wilson

Family, like branches on a tree,we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain the same.

— Lena

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

— Boris Sidis

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne