We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to…

Stephen Jay Gould
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We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2011). Full House, p.216, Harvard University Press
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