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Who said it: fossils lineages can’t be tested1 min read

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Who wrote the following:

To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story – amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

The quote is from Henry Gee, chief science writer for Nature and author of The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution.