Quotes about paleontology
paleontology branches molecular-biology
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. Daniel Dennett
paleontology levels fossils
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. Stephen Jay Gould
paleontology fields tiny
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
paleontology earth fossils
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. George Gaylord Simpson