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Jonathan Kingdon
(1935 - )
English zoologist and scientific illustrator whose artistic work includes sculpture and painting, and who has written scientific books in zoology, anthropology and biogeography. His best known work is East African Mammal, an atlas of evolution in Africa.
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Science Quotes by Jonathan Kingdon (1 quote)
Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards.
— Jonathan Kingdon
The Self-Made Man: Human Evolution From Eden to Extinction (1996), 13.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
