Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Gould, Stephen J. (1984), The Flamingo's Smile, New York: W.W. Norton, Retrieved on 2012-04-13

Memes

13 APR 2012

 The Geological Strata Could Not have been Put Down At the...

Surely, somewhere, at least one courageous trilobite would have paddled on valiantly (as its colleagues succumbed) and won a place in the upper strata. Surely, on some primordial beach, a man would have suffered a heart attack and been washed into the lower strata before intelligence had a chance to plot a temporary escape.... No trilobite lies in the upper strata because they all perished 225 million years ago. No man keeps lithified company with a dinosaur, because we were still 60 million ...
Folksonomies: faunal succession
Folksonomies: faunal succession
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Otherwise we would, somewhere, find a trilobite in an upper strata or a human with the dinosaurs.

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