sexual selection through mate choice cannot favor what its agents cannot perceive. If animals cannot see the shapes of one another’s heart ventricles, then heart ventricles cannot be directly shaped by sexual selection—
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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