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“The introduction of genes from another species can serve as the raw material for an adaptive evolutionary advance even though the original hybridization is disadvantageous”
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“The fossil record is just too primitive a motion-picture camera to capture the fast-moving life.”
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natural selection takes place within a generation, but evolution takes place across generations.
They were changed by their dead. Their beaks were carved by their losses.
Each generation lies where falls, and the next generation builds on the ruins of the one before. They hatch in a morgue, breed in a crypt, and lie down with their ancestors, as if here not only life but death too is asking to be watched.
— Oct 20, 2025 02:51PM
They were changed by their dead. Their beaks were carved by their losses.
Each generation lies where falls, and the next generation builds on the ruins of the one before. They hatch in a morgue, breed in a crypt, and lie down with their ancestors, as if here not only life but death too is asking to be watched.
