Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Co., 1989, ch. 1.

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A quote by Stephen Jay Gould about randomness: “Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim…”

A quote by Stephen Jay Gould about randomness: “Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim…”

A quote by Stephen Jay Gould about randomness: “Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim…”