Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1990). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
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