All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. ✨ Richard…

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All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2004). The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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