The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

by Stephen Jay Gould

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  Illustration Credits

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  From Lamarck, 1815.

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  From Lamarck, 1809.

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  From Spencer, 1893b.

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  From Stauffer, 1975. Reprinted with permission of Can Press.

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  From P. H. Gosse, Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. (London: John Van Voorst, 1857).

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