Stephen Jay Gould said: human ancestry is more like a scraggly bush, full of tangles and shadowy areas, and it just so happens we're the only branch left.

斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德说人类的祖先更像是一个在阴暗地方的满是缠结的乱七八糟的灌木丛，碰巧我们是留下的唯一分支。

Stephen Jay Gould has a wonderful essay where he discussed this, looking at the evolution of Mickey Mouse from the Walt Disney character.

史蒂芬·杰·古尔德有一篇精彩的文章讨论了这个问题，从华特·迪斯尼的卡通人物米奇·老鼠的进化开始。

In one of his essays, Stephen Jay Gould notes how a hero of his named Henry Edward Crampton spent fifty years, from 1906 to his death in 1956, quietly studying a genus of land snails in Polynesia called Par tula.

斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德在一篇散文中指出，他起名为亨利·爱德华·克兰普顿的主人公花了50年时间，从1906年直到l956年去世，不声不响地研究波利尼西亚的一种名叫柄眼蜗牛的陆地蜗牛。