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The sudden appearance of novelty is not, as Otto Schindewolf emphasized, an unusual aspect of the fossil record.

— Jeffrey H. Schwartz Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)

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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.

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A "new" systematics will be forthcoming only when the urge to be "right" takes a back seat to the possibility that one is wrong.

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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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