Stephen Jay Gould鈥檚 latest collection of essays written for Natural
History is Leonardo鈥檚 Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. The
title essay explores da Vinci鈥檚 idea that fossils flowed in internal rivers that
deposited them at the surface. Great stories, elegantly told. Published in
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