The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessib…

Stephen Jay Gould
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The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1990). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company
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