Morphological Quotes

#1. The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.

Steven M. Stanley

#2. There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

Terence McKenna

#3. Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

J. Philippe Rushton

#4. Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Peter R. Grant

#5. To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Peter R. Grant

#6. Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.

Eugene Dubois

#7. Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.

Ernst Haeckel

#8. It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#9. I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Oksana Baiul

#10. If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

Zach Braff

#11. Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

Santosh Kalwar

#12. The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

Jillian Michaels

#13. Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

#14. Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

John McCain

#15. I want to believe that things sometimes matter. I want to believe that what we had when we were children we can still have when we grow older. That there are some things in life that are worth holding on to.

Ashley Cowger

#16. Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!

Auliq Ice

#17. Whatever decisions we make in life always have their respective consequences - good, better, best, or bad, worse, worst.

Kcat Yarza

#18. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

D. Michael Quinn

#19. In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Jonah Goldberg