Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.


What Evolution is (ed. Basic Books, 2001) - ISBN: 9780465044269

Ernst Mayr Quotes

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is...

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is...

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is...

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is...