George Gaylord Simpson byl americký zoolog a paleontolog.
„Evoluční taxonomie vychází jasně a téměř výhradně z Darwina.“
[(en) Evolutionary taxonomy stems explicitly and almost exclusively from Darwin.]
Zdroj: [Mayr, Ernst, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1982, 209, anglicky]
Simpson in: Elie Alexis Shneour (1966) Extraterrestrial Life: An Anthology and Bibliography. p. 269
Splendid Isolation (1980) New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 38
Cited in: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250
“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.”
George Gaylord Simpson (1967) The Meaning of Evolution, revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 345.
