"The thrill of the scientific hunt is to have an idea whose truth is hitched to predictions that take us to new places…"

"Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives."

"Everything changes when we look at the evidence; what looks impossible actually happened."

"The order of fossils in the world’s rocks is powerful evidence of our connections to the rest of life."

"Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two appa…"

"Do the facts of our ancient history mean that humans are not special or unique among living creatures? Of course not.…"

"Our fish ancestors had internal and external nostrils, too, and to nobody’s surprise these are the same fish that hav…"

"What do billions of years of history mean for our lives today? Answers to fundamental questions we face—about the inn…"

"For thousands of years, mankind considered itself the pinnacle of life’s creation on a planet sitting in the center o…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."