Ocupation: Paleontologist
Life: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002
Birthday: September 10
Death: May 20
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
source: Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
topic: Life, Progress, Expansion, History Of Life