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“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.”

Science Evolution Biology Measuring Trilobites Cornets

Author:Niles Eldredge

“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour.”

Death Evolution Innovation Extinction Cycle Trilobites

Book:Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Source: Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

“In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life. ... As you slide the doors back upon this pallid parade of containers and bottles your voice automatically loses decibels. You reflect: mortality, this is your sad face; you defy decay only as a ghastly pickle.”

Science Trilobites

Book:Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Source: Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs. (in Elatsoe)”

Cute Hedgehogs Trilobites Pill Bugs

Author:Darcy Little Badger

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs.”

Insects Hedgehogs Trilobites Pill Bugs Cute Critters

Book:Elatsoe

Source: Elatsoe