Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the o…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1999). Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History, Three Rivers Press (CA)
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