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Chris Martine
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botanist who has a broad interest in natural history. To reduce loss of biodiversity, he produces outreach materials to educate the general public, including the video series, “Plants Are Cool Tool!” He investigates the ecology and evolution of plant reproduction, and has a research focus on the Solanaceae plant family.
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Science Quotes by Chris Martine (2 quotes)
Contrary to popular parlance, Darwin didn't discover evolution. He uncovered one (most would say the) essential mechanism by which it operates: natural selection. Even then, his brainstorm was incomplete until the Modern Synthesis of the early/mid-20th century when (among other things) the complementary role of genetic heredity was fully realized. Thousands upon thousands of studies have followed, providing millions of data points that support this understanding of how life on Earth has come to be as it is.
— Chris Martine
In online article, 'The Day That Botany Took on Bobby Jindal by Just Being Itself', Huffington Post (5 Aug 2013).
The question is not: How can we justify the unobstructed teaching of evolution in public schools? The question, of course, is: How can we not?
— Chris Martine
In online article, 'The Day That Botany Took on Bobby Jindal by Just Being Itself', Huffington Post (5 Aug 2013).
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.
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