Top Fossil Record Quotes
I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better th...
Ernst Mayr
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charles darwin, darwin, eldredge, evidence, evolution, fossil record, gould, harvard, niles eldredge, science
An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil...
Richard E. Leakey
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accident, biology, earth, evolution, fossil record, fossils, history, homo sapiens, mortality, science