“I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science—and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.”

"The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even", p. 93
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

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American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002

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