Many of these last occurring in the Upper Miocene are indeed so closely allied to the flora now surviving as to make it questionable, even in the opinion of naturalists opposed to the doctrine of transmutation, whether they are not genealogically related the one to the other.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
Considered genealogically, the received theory respecting the creation of the Solar System is unmistakably of low origin.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
Professor Heer has not ventured to identify any of this vast assemblage of Miocene plants and insects with living species, so far at least as to assign to them the same specific names, but he presents us with a list of what he terms homologous forms, which are so like the living ones that he supposes the one to have been derived genealogically from the others.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell