Ancestor Quote by Michael Behe

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record,…

— Francis Collins

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of life two…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection.…

— Elliott Sober

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

— Michael Behe

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry…

— Jeff Hawkins

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard…

— Michael Behe

In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me…

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Peter R. Grant

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have…

— Richard Dawkins