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Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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Evolution. . . is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

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New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

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