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Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the author of thirteen books, including:\u00a0<em>Ever Since Darwin; Evolution &amp; Extinction : Eassys; Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin; Human Evolution; Mismeasure of Man; Ontogeny and Phylogeny; and Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. <\/em>&#8220;The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. History includes too much chaos, or extremely sensitive dependence on minute and unmeasurable differences in initial conditions, leading to massively divergent outcomes based on tiny and unknowable disparities in starting points.&#8221; -Stephen J. 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