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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre
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― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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