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...the five essays I read, Stephen Jay Gould is, endearingly, very interested in evolution of words as well. Repeated parts are coordinated in development.. It may be genetically more complex to enlarge a thumb and not to modify a big toe, than to increase both together. It is, to use Michael Ghiselin's phrase, a contraption, not a lovely contrivance. You cannot demonstrate evolution with ...

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