Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetri…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, p.322, W. W. Norton & Company
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