JTW's Evolutionary Origins - Author: Gould, Stephan Jay

Historical Contingency

"Contingency is the affirmation of control by immediate events over destiny..."
(Stephen Jay Gould, 1989, p. 284)

"Charles Darwin recognized this central distinction between laws in the background and contingency in the details..."
(Stephen Jay Gould, 1989, p.290)

• Gould, Stephan Jay
  • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
  • W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.
  • QE 770.G67 1989

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