"Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity."
Stephen Jay Gould

January 1, 1970

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Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 355

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