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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
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| Birth: | 10th September, 1941 |
| Death: | 20th May, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biologist, Historian, Paleontologist |
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