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Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a fellow and President of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) from 2008 to 2012. Schwartz' research involves the methods, theories, and philosophies in evolutionary biology, including the origins and diversification of primates.
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Science, especially evolutionary sciences, can only proceed from learning about theories of hypotheses that do not stand the test of time.
What the Bones Tell Us (1997)
The processes of bone preservation are such that the farther back in time we go, the less there is.
What the Bones Tell Us (1997)
The sudden appearance of novelty is not, as Otto Schindewolf emphasized, an unusual aspect of the fossil record.
Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)
A "new" systematics will be forthcoming only when the urge to be "right" takes a back seat to the possibility that one is wrong.
Orang-utan Biology (1988)
More than one hundred years ago, William Bateson suggested that studying the regulation and timing of development was the key to understanding evolutionary change. He was right.
Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)
The observation of reduction in complexity in many groups or organisms after a structure has emerged in a full-blown state makes sense in terms of homeobox genes.
Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)
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