James Dewey Watson Quote

Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because it does fit all the facts of taxonomy, of palaeontology, and of geographical distribution, and because no alternative explanation is credible.


Adaptation, Nature, Volume 124, Number 3119, August 10, 1929 (p. 231)


Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because it...

Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because it...

Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because it...

Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because it...