Evolution

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her. ”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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“ But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her. ”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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