Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.
Stephen Jay GouldDeath is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Stephen Jay GouldTransitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
Stephen Jay GouldAll organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.
Stephen Jay Gould