[net.origins] Out-of-Context Quote-of-the-Month

dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (05/07/85)

"Contrary to De Vries' opinion, mutations do not produce new species."

	Theodosius Dobzhansky, _Evolution, Genetics and Man_.
	John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1955, p83.

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dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (08/17/85)

        "[A] family of mammals is phenotypically equivalent to a
        family of bivalves."

          Steven M Stanley, "A Theory of Evolution Above the
          Species Level", Proceedings of the National Academy
          of Sciences, USA, 72(2), February 1975, 646-650.
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