George G. Simpson Quotes


Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences. George G. Simpson Examples 81
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. George G. Simpson Anything 78
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. George G. Simpson Akin 63
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. George G. Simpson Materialistic 60
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. George G. Simpson Become 48
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. George G. Simpson Concepts 48
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. George G. Simpson Appear 46
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. George G. Simpson Almost 44
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. George G. Simpson Backward 41
Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. George G. Simpson Against 32
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. George G. Simpson Divergence 22

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