Quote of the Day - 2 April 2009

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Charles Darwin

Letter to Charles Lyell

10 Jan 1860

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Awesome. I'm putting that one in my quotes file.

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