Quoting Stephen Jay Gould, The Return of Hopeful Monsters, Natural History, 1977

These tales, in the “just-so story” tradition […], do not prove anything.

— Stephen Jay Gould, The Return of Hopeful Monsters, Natural History, 1977

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4:05pm on August 18, 2025 from Tbilisi, Georgia.


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