I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of…

Stephen Jay Gould
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I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company
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