Stephen Jay Gould Quote

The flowering of functional morphology has yielded a panoply of elegant individual examples and few principles beyond the unenlightening conclusion that animals work well... Newtonian procedures yield Newtonian answers, and who doubts that animals tend to be well designed.


The Promise of Paleobiology as a Nomothetic, Evolutionary Discipline., Paleobiology, Volume 6 1980 (p. 101)


The flowering of functional morphology has yielded a panoply of elegant individual examples and few principles beyond the unenlightening conclusion...

The flowering of functional morphology has yielded a panoply of elegant individual examples and few principles beyond the unenlightening conclusion...

The flowering of functional morphology has yielded a panoply of elegant individual examples and few principles beyond the unenlightening conclusion...

The flowering of functional morphology has yielded a panoply of elegant individual examples and few principles beyond the unenlightening conclusion...