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| cb12e81 | I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... | evolution science eldredge fossil-record gould niles-eldredge speciational-evolution stephen-jay-gould harvard charles-darwin evidence darwin | Ernst Mayr | |
| b26bb6e | The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living is, he will say . And indeed, has done a marvelous job of popularizing . But | evolution irony science charles-darwin darwinian dawkins gene genetics richard-dawkins darwin | Ernst Mayr | |
| 2cf16f7 | Life is simply the reification of the process of living. | Ernst Mayr |