El Pulgar Del Panda - Stephen Jay Gould.pdf -

“Dr. Finch calls the panda’s thumb ‘elegant,’” Elara said, projecting the skeletal image onto the screen. A murmur rippled through the crowd. It looked ugly. Bony. Functional, but ugly.

“Why would a perfect designer,” she asked, “use a wrist bone to do the job of a finger? Why not just grow a real thumb? Why these crude, spare parts?” El pulgar del panda - Stephen Jay Gould.pdf

That night, Elara gave her lecture at the Natural History Museum. The hall was packed with Dr. Finch’s devotees. Harold Finch himself sat in the front row, arms crossed, a silver fox of certainty. ’” Elara said