Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Niles Eldredge

Born: August 25, 1943 (age 81)
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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