Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/a-rant-about-living-fossils/
Thursday 23 August 2012
Unless They’re Zombies, Fossils Don’t Live
I hate the phrase “living fossil.” The term should be eradicated from the vocabulary of science writers, and anyone who employs it should be promptly encased in Carbonite. “Missing link” is the only slogan that pisses me off more. My acute allergic reaction to the idiom may be a little overwrought, I admit. But, to [...]
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