George G. Simpson
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Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
George G. 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 the distinction must be stressed.
George G. Simpson
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.
George G. Simpson
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
George G. Simpson
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.
George G. Simpson
Among all the myriad forms of matter and of life on the earth, or as far as we know in the universe, man is unique.
George G. Simpson
