Henry Gee Professions : Blogger Born : 1962 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Henry Gee No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific. Henry Gee scarcity stories mean Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being. Henry Gee patterns becoming process Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose. Henry Gee variation purpose memories Similar Authors Anil Dash blogger Amanda Marcotte blogger Bill Whittle blogger David Swanson blogger Darren Rowse blogger Heather Armstrong blogger All Authors
