Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Sediments between 4 and 10 million years in age are potential guardians of the Holy Grail of human evolution — the period when our lineage began its separate end run to later domination, and a time for which no fossil evidence exists at all.


Empire of the Apes, Natural History, Volume 96, Number 5, May 1987 (p. 24)


Sediments between 4 and 10 million years in age are potential guardians of the Holy Grail of human evolution — the period when our lineage began...

Sediments between 4 and 10 million years in age are potential guardians of the Holy Grail of human evolution — the period when our lineage began...

Sediments between 4 and 10 million years in age are potential guardians of the Holy Grail of human evolution — the period when our lineage began...

Sediments between 4 and 10 million years in age are potential guardians of the Holy Grail of human evolution — the period when our lineage began...