Fortey, Richard

Rarely in science does the scientists individual philosophy of life penetrate into their formal scientific reporting, but in this subject area such speculation is rife. For example, Richard Fortey writes in his Life An Unauthorized Biography... 

I express my thanks to David Polly, Queen Mary College, London University for discussion and for bringing his thesis to my attention and to Norman Macleod for information on foraminiferal phylogeny and Richard Fortey (both of The Natural History Museum) for reading a preliminary draft. 

The reductionist approach to evolution. .. has proved enormously successful in illuminating the ultimate basis for the transformation of one organ into another, or even one species into another but these momentous discoveries do not explain the course of biological history. The description of a cast of characters alone does not determine the shape of a drama. Richard Fortey, in a review of Simon Conway Morris s The Crucible of Creation... 

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