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“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated lobe-fins, you vertebrated worms, you Hoxed-up sponges, you newcomers on the block, you eukaryotes, you barely distinguishable congregations of a monotonously narrow parish, you are little more than fancy froth on the surface of bacterial life. Why, the very cells that build you are themselves colonies of bacteria, replaying the same old tricks we bacteria discovered a billion years ago. We were here before you arrived, and we shall be here after you are gone.”
― The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
― The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
― The Mysterious Island
― The Mysterious Island
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