Ancestor Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

— Charles Darwin

“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor.…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Peter R. Grant

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

— Cynthia Kenyon

“The fact that you came from a very beautiful worm demonstrate that, evolution is more romantic than scientific. Thus, it arouses the mind rather…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.”

— Will Cuppy

“The early worm gets eaten by the early bird.”

— Anonymous

The early bird gets the worm

— Anonymous

The early bird catches the worm.

— William Camden

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the…

— Gary Larson

The early worm deserves the bird.

— Robert A. Heinlein