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.
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, am… - George Gaylord Simpson
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, am…
- George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind - George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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 … - George Gaylord Simpson
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 …
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise… - George Gaylord Simpson
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise…
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of li… - George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of li…
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous… - 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…
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. - George Gaylord Simpson
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is oft… - George Gaylord Simpson
The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is oft…
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of famili… - George Gaylord Simpson
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of famili…
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