Theodosius Dobzhansky Quote

Experience shows... that there is no way toward understanding of the mechanisms ofmacroevolutionary changes, which require time on geological scales, other than through understanding of microevolutionary processes observable within the span of a human lifetime, often controlled by man's will, and sometimes reproducible in laboratory experiments.


Genetics and The Origin of Species, Chapter I (p. 16), Columbia University Press. 1951


Experience shows... that there is no way toward understanding of the mechanisms ofmacroevolutionary changes, which require time on geological scales, ...

Experience shows... that there is no way toward understanding of the mechanisms ofmacroevolutionary changes, which require time on geological scales, ...

Experience shows... that there is no way toward understanding of the mechanisms ofmacroevolutionary changes, which require time on geological scales, ...

Experience shows... that there is no way toward understanding of the mechanisms ofmacroevolutionary changes, which require time on geological scales, ...