Eozoon and other low organisms in Laurentian rocks at St.
(Critics of Darwinism have been having a field day with this little blooper!) Darwin erred, too, in thinking of the fossil
Eozoon as primitive biota, helping to fill the apparent gaps in the early history of life.
Hahn's first contact with Canada came in the form of the fossil "
eozoon canadense," which Canadian geologist William Dawson of McGill University in Montreal claimed to be an organic, single-celled protistan.
There is reference to the
Eozoon controversy, but one learns little here of the strange role of J.W.
Indeed, it is one of the great ironies in the history of science that Dawson fought to convince his contemporaries that life had microbial origins far deeper in time than most were willing to accept: his
Eozoon canadense (Dawson 1875).