Accumulate Quote by Spencer Wells

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson

... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript,…

— Francis Maitland Balfour

It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

— George Gaylord Simpson

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

— Edmund Beecher Wilson

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record…

— Anonymous

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

— Dominic Holland

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance…

— Evan Parker

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this…

— Nikolai Gogol

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

“The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.”

— Matt Ridley

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

— Mahatma Gandhi