Development Quote by Richard Leakey

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and…

— Earnest Hooton

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa,…

— Richard Leakey

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

— Neil Shubin

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

— Anonymous

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

“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

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while…

— Brian Switek

We are fossils in the making.

— Wallace Stegner

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution…

— John G. D. Clark

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith