George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.
Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century,...
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known. George Gaylord Simpson
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known.
The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone. George Gaylord Simpson
The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. George Gaylord Simpson
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal.
He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny. George Gaylord Simpson
He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny.
Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. George Gaylord Simpson
Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible.
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. George Gaylord Simpson
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind. George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. George Gaylord Simpson
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.