Paleontology

Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

"Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."

Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

"Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology."

Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

"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."

John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

"One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction."