Descent Theory

Famous quotes containing the words descent and/or theory:

    “Genealogy. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “Won’t this whole instinct matter bear revision?
    Won’t almost any theory bear revision?
    To err is human, not to, animal.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)