“Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.” KnowsHumansCharacterUseScienceDecisionJudgmentSignificanceAdaptive Author:George Gaylord Simpson
“The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.” CharacterOrderKnownBreakCasesMembersGapsPrimitiveFossilsSequence Author:George Gaylord Simpson
