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-}}Stylish, elegant, a [[spandrel]] fancier — who isn’t? — and he irritated the living ''piss'' out of {{author|Richard Dawkins}}. What’s not to like? Books include The {{br|Mismeasure of Man}} and {{br|Rocks of Ages}}, but his main thing was paleontology. He and Richard Lewontin wrote the famous ''[[Media:The Spandrels of St Marco.pdf|The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme]]'' — which led JC to make a pilgrimage to Venezia to see said spandrels. Alas, San Marco was ''chiuso''. But we got to experiment with the proverbial [[crisp-packet blowing across St Mark’s square]], which was nice.
+}}Stylish, elegant, a [[spandrel]] fancier — who isn’t? — and he irritated the living ''piss'' out of {{author|Richard Dawkins}}. What’s not to like? Books include {{br|The Mismeasure of Man}} and {{br|Rocks of Ages}}, but his main thing was paleontology. He and Richard Lewontin wrote the famous ''[[Media:The Spandrels of St Marco.pdf|The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme]]'' — which led JC to make a pilgrimage to Venezia to see said spandrels. Alas, San Marco was ''chiuso''. But we got to experiment with the proverbial [[crisp-packet blowing across St Mark’s square]], which was nice.