Wednesday, October 23, 2019

A quote from the book "Why Evolution Is True" which I read 10 years ago.

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne

"Evolutionary theory, then, makes predictions that are bold and clear. Darwin spent some twenty years amassing evidence for his theory before publishing The Origin. That was more than a hundred and fifty years ago. So much knowledge has accumulated since then! So many more fossils found; so many more species collected and their distributions mapped around the world; so much more work in uncovering the evolutionary relationships of different species. And whole new branches of science, undreamt of by Darwin, have arisen, including molecular biology and systematics, the study of how organisms are related. And we'll see, all the evidence -- both old and new -- leads ineluctably to the conclusion that evolution is true."

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