Quotes and Misquotes from Niles Eldredge

Quotes and Misquotes from:
• November 1978 L.A. Times
  • Quoted: Sat Mar 13 1993 16:22:12 By: Barbara Brasfield

    "But no one has found any such in-between creatures. This was long chalked up to 'gaps' in the fossil records, gaps that proponents of gradualism confidently expected to fill in someday when rock strata of the proper antiquity were eventually located. But ALL OF THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE TO DATE HAS FAILED TO TURN UP ANY SUCH MISSING LINKS, Eldridge said and there is a growing conviction among many scientists that these transitional forms never existed. And if this is so, then the gradualistic view of evolution is an inaccurate portrayal of how life develops."