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/ "We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy \
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| earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and       |
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| tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago,    |
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| has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for  |
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| a 'higher' answer---but none exists."                                   |
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| [Stephen Jay Gould, quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief,                 |
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| Famous People with the Courage to Doubt", by                            |
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\ James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]                                /
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