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Fossils
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No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.
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― In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
― In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
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… if some metaphors can persist in the language as fossils, it puts every metaphor under a cloud of suspicion.
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― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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