In which Max finally completes his three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria, and asks why Gould changed his mind about key features of evolution around 1977

In which Max considers the geological writings of William Whewell and his concept of “palaetiological science”

In which Max explores the history of the Gaia hypothesis and wonders whether it needs to be “Darwinized”

In which Max re-examines a recent re-examination of living fossils, with the help of a new paper by Beckett Sterner

In which Max considers the problems involved in interpreting the enigmatic fossils of the Ediacaran Period, as well as some influential attempts to interpret them