text:  And at first glance, I thought this was going to be a book that we've heard these stories before. It was set in 19th century England, talking about the origins of paleontology as a science. But it's more than that, and it got at three things, or three major concepts I feel like we often take for granted. But if you think about them in the context of their time, they're entirely mind-blowing. And that is that life is very, very old, almost incomprehensibly old. That extinction is a reality, and evolution...