Mark Twain
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. ✨ Mark Twain (1973). What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings, p.81, Univ of California Press

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