Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the …

Richard Dawkins
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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition, p.30, OUP Oxford
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