SO ENDS this section on the structural evolution of the human foot. The smell of the catacombs of the great Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road in London pervades this work. Anatomists scrutinizing old and obscure samples in basements. True beautiful Victorian scholarship brought (somewhat) to the modern era. Bolt-on evolution is alive and well in the toolbox of Rube Goldberg.
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