Corinne Herlihy’s Reviews > Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide > Status Update

“The landscape [of natural selection] is more like the surface of a slowly surging ocean.”

“Variability is also the raw material for making new species.”

“Here was mountain making of a biological sort.”

“The crust of the earth is a vast museum…”

I never knew that geology was what really shaped Darwin’s ideas on biology. He accepted that the earth changed and this gave him a different perspective of its living species.

Also, Thomas Huxley is a real one.

“the unique and minuscule twig of Homo sapiens emerged in a geological yesterday, and has flourished for only an eye blink of cosmic immensity”

“[Coral reefs] could build giant fortresses, founded on the skeletons of their ancestors.”