Paleoanthropologist

🇺🇸Mary Doria Russell

Literature

b. 1950

"One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables."

🇰🇪Richard Leakey

Politics

humanism

1944–2022

"It is impossible to imagine existence in the absence of subjective sensation we call reflective consciousness."

🇫🇷Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion

1881–1955

"The Human Phenomenon Excerpts from the book"

🇺🇸Henry Fairfield Osborn

Science

1857–1935

"This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth."

Richard Owen

Science

1804–1892

"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."

🇩🇪Rudolf Virchow

Medicine

1821–1902

"Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line—nor should there be."

"More than one hundred years ago, William Bateson suggested that studying the regulation and timing of development was the key to understanding evolutionary change. He was right."