Altered Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual…

— Ernst Mayr

“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Something is always going wrong with our teeth. They don’t last anything like a lifetime, usually. What chain of events in evolution should we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good…

— Hendrik Poinar

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature…

— Lewis Thomas

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

— Jack Horner

“As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.”

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

— Anne Sexton

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not…

— Paul Watson

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity…

— Stephen Jay Gould