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The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine ...
Said an ape as he swung by his tail
To his offspring both female and male,
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By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say tha ...
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the libert ...
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little ...
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it t ...
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
A jellyfish and a saurian,
And caves where the cave men dwell;
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Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and th ...
A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.
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