Professor Chris Impey and I talk about "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould and what we have wrong about scientific orthodoxy

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Professor Chris Impey and I talk about "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould and what we have wrong about scientific orthodoxy

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University of Arizona Astronomy professor Chris Impey and I talk about "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould. This is book was way over my head but i still learned a lot. Hear Professor Impey dumb things down for me and share things like how fossilization is rare and evolution is a lottery. Wonderful Life: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wonderful+life+stephen+jay+gould&crid=1J804L1473ANY&sprefix=wonderful+life+ste%2Caps%2C447&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_18World's Without End: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=chris+impey+worlds+without+end&crid=2U2GU1N0R1302&sprefix=chris+impey+%2Caps%2C533&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_12

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