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A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life by Bill Mesler
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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