Malorie Albee

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According to this argument, we came out on top because we were more intelligent. It isn’t difficult to understand why many people find this idea appealing. It allowed humanity to regain the privileged position that it lost when Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection made it clear that we were just another species of animals. We might be apes, but at least we are exceptionally brainy apes.
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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