Birth: August 25, 1943
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing….
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutiona….
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for….
The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures ….
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to ha….
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's ne….
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as ….
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said th….