ange time,” Fortey says no t somet  feelings really did runquite  I felt as if I ougo put a safety  on beforeing about t it did actually feel a bit like t.”

    Strangest of all artled many in tological community by rounding abruptly on Gouldin a book of ion. treated Gould “empt, evenloatey’s e later. “tion, unaory,  to (if not actuallysh) Gould’s.”

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    to undergo a period of criticalreappraisal. Fortey and Derek Briggs—one of tics to compare terms, cladisticsconsists of organizing organisms on tures. Fortey gives as an examplet. If you considered t’s large size andstriking trunk you mig it could tle in common iny, sniffings if you compared bot t ands built to muc Fortey is saying is tGould sa as strange and various as t first sigen nostranger trilobites,” Fortey says no is just t o getused to trilobites. Familiarity, you knoy.”

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    t is t to be not so different after all.

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