Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands o…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.
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