“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.” ProcessNaturalViewsStudyStudentsEvolutionArgumentAccountsPaidDataPreservesExpertsFancySelectionFossilsNatural SelectionStasis Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.” PeopleHas BeensScienceNaturalForgetTheoryEvolutionObservationParenthoodModestSelectionAdoptedDistinguishedGeneticsEcologicalNatural SelectionTheory Of Evolution Author:John L. Harper
“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.” MenKindFactsWould BeLyingEasyNaturalDoubtWorstEffectsObjectsEvolutionEssentialsAddPopulationNo DoubtElsewherePersistSelectionNatural SelectionBacteriaMutationMutants Author:Pierre-Paul Grasse