Quotes about Paleontology

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No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossib — Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time
The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it o — Gareth J. Nelson
The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, int — Gareth J. Nelson
From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descend — Maja Säfström
Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Muse — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Punker, what's compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don't give a fuck. It's a bummer, your care slides down — Noah Wareness
I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent c — Richard E. Leakey
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermedia — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossi — Jack Horner, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever