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Léon Croizat (1894–1982) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species. Space, Time, Form: The Biological Synthesis (1962, issued 1964), 209 Let us hit this glass species and ...
Damon Runyon (18841946) Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...American writer He is without strict doubt a Hoorah Henry, and he is generally figured as nothing but a lob as far as doing anything useful in this world is concerned. ‘Tight Shoes’, in Take It Easy (1938). Jim Godbolt adapted this to ‘Hooray Henry’ in 1951 to describe a sub-species of British upper-class twit. The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. Quoted in The Treasury of Humorous Quotations , eds Esar & Bentley (1951). Alluding to Bible...
Sewall Wright (1889–1988) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...the isolation of two groups. How far do the observations of actual species and their subdivisions conform to this picture? This is naturally too large a subject for more than a few suggestions. That evolution involves non-adaptive differentiation to a large extent at the subspecies and even the species level is indicated by the kinds of differences by which such groups are actually distinguished by systematics. It is only at the subfamily and family levels that clear-cut adaptive differences become the rule. The principal evolutionary mechanism in the...
