"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms."

George G. Simpson, American Paleontologist

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"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms."

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"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."

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"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."

Debt

"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."

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"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."

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"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."

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"He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material."

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