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| d0d3793 | We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed. | harvard history kids repeating-the-past | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| cb12e81 | "I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... | charles-darwin darwin eldredge evidence evolution fossil-record gould harvard niles-eldredge science speciational-evolution stephen-jay-gould | Ernst Mayr |