Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
George Gaylord SimpsonIt remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual completely continuous transitional sequences.
George Gaylord SimpsonThe meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.
George Gaylord SimpsonSplitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
George Gaylord Simpson