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“Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim”

Enough Eye Modern Example Theory Complexes Swim Accounting Synthetic Squids Vertebrates Arthropods

Author:Frank B. Salisbury

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds.”

Men Firsts Kind Has Beens Made Species Population Resistance Exposed Diverse Insects Compounds Pesticides Ddt Arthropods

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.”

Kind Animal Fronts Legs Embarrassing Limbs Joints Arthropods

Author:Benjamin Van Roy

“The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.”

Earth Animal Successful Rich Groups Evolution Discovery Species Diverse Arthropods

Author:Benjamin Van Roy

“So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.”

Ifs Important Lasts Humanity Land Months Disappear Insects Dwelling Arthropods

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.”

Looks Happens Economic Ultimate Organization Intelligent Psychological Giants Conception Dictatorship Entity Bugs Spiders Ants Madmen Pseudo Hives Arthropods

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.”

Writing Posterity Arthropods

Author:Peter Reading