History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. ✨ St…

Stephen Jay Gould
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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company
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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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