Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak....
James 1:19
"The attribution of ancestry does not come from the fossil; it can only
come from us. Fossils are mute; their silence gives us unlimited license
to tell their stories for them, which usually take the form of ancestry
and descent.... Everything we think we know about the causal relations
of events in Deep Time has been invented by us, after the fact."
Henry Gee, Nature 1999, quoted by Tom Bethell, Darwin's House of Cards (2017), p. 29
