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Some variations useful to him have probably arisen suddenly, or by one step; many botanists, for instance, believe that the fuller's teazle, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus; and this amount of change may have suddenly arisen in a seedling. So
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Nature creates variations, man chooses whether those variations are useful or good and in doing so decides what he will protect and what variation will survive
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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