"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."

George G. Simpson, American Paleontologist

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"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."

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"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."

Earth

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

Variety

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

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"Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself."

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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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