Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim rea…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1990). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company
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So much of science proceeds by telling stories. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1991). Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1990). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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