Niles Eldredge Quote

As a paleontologist, I readily concede that my long dead fossils, lacking any traces of their soft anatomies or behaviors, are totally mute on the subject of reproduction and transmission of genetic information. And this is, I acknowledge, a major limitation to our data.

Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory (p. 2), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1995