Action Quote by Niles Eldredge
“One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was.”
![“And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.” quote by Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01e/niles-eldredge-44808_adaptive_and-it-has-been-the-paleontologist-my-ow_1588685.jpg)
