n “Given the
fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologists finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.”
n Ernst Mayr (Professor Emeritus in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard
University, Hailed as the Darwin of the 20th century), What Evolution Is, 2001, p. 14.