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How to analyze Burgess Shale disparity—a reply to Ridley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Stephen Jay Gould*
Affiliation:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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