Niles Eldredge Quotes:
Life: b. August 25, 1943
Birthday: August 25
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.
topic: Clothes, Yield, Long, Stasis, Recalcitrant, New Clothes
