“In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.”
― Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
― Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
― Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
― Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
“Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.”
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“If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.”
― An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
― An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
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