Mass Extinctions
A topic within Palaeontology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Biology.
Reading for Palaeontology
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookWonderful LifeStephen Jay Gould, 1989
Reads the Burgess Shale as evidence that evolution is contingent and would not repeat — an argument later disputed on the fossils themselves.