Although time-travel stories are often convoluted and confusing, this story is in fact interesting: it has the classic Jurassic Park appeal, and revolves around two interesting questions. First the question how strong the famous "butterfly effect" can be, and second Gould's "rewind the tape" question: what would happen if we rewind the tape of evolution and let it play again. I wonder if the butterfly effect was named after Ray Bradbury's story, because it was written in 1952 - long before chaos theory became popular.
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