Quote of the day
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Niles Eldredge
Born: August 25, 1943 (age 80)
Bio: Niles Eldredge is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
Known for:
- Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life (2005)
- Why We Do It (2004)
- Reinventing Darwin (1995)
- The pattern of evolution (1999)
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