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Ernst Mayr Quotes: Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
         

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.


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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.



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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.



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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.



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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.



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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.



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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.





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