Wonderful Life
July 19th 2016 19 Jul 2016: Around 1990, I read a book written by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of paleontology at Harvard University. It was entitled "Wonderful Life the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History" and dealt with the explosion of life in the Cambrian age, it's demise and burial and discovery over 570 million years later. Well, it made a lasting impression on me and I fantisized that someday, I wou
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