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...also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called them in his 1989 book, Wonderful Life, which celebrated the strangeness of the Burgess Shale animals...
...into a crisis. First they recalibrated the geological clock, chopping the Cambrian period to about half its former length. Then they announced that the interval of major evolutionary innovation did not span the entire 30 million years, but rather was concentrated in the first third. "Fast," Harvard's Gould observes, "is now a lot faster than we thought, and that's extraordinarily interesting." (Watch TIME's video "Darwin and Lincoln: Birthdays and Evolution...
...That co-payment would have been an enormous burden," Gould said. "We often forget how our constituencies have different concerns...
Anderson's sentiments were echoed by Gould, who said that 25 years ago, when his two children were young, the co-payment would also have been a vital issue for his family...
Students, local politicians, union members and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould joined in an "old-fashioned union rally," in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church last night...