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But Complex Animals Had Obtained Their Adaptive Flexibility At Some Cost--they Had Traded One Dependency For Another. It Was No Longer Necessary To Change Their Bodies To Adapt, Because Now Their Adaptation Was Behavior, Socially Determined. That Behavior Required Learning. In A Sense, Among Higher Animals Adaptive Fitness Was No Longer Transmitted To The Next Generation By Dna At All. It Was Now Carried By Teaching.

Physics Was The First Of The Natural Sciences To Become Fully Modern And Highly Mathematical.chemistry Followed In The Wake Of Physics, But Biology, The Retarded Child, Lagged Far Behind.

The Greatest Scientists In History Are Great Precisely Because They Broke With The Consensus. There Is No Such Thing As Consensus Science. If It's Consensus, It Isn't Science. If It's Science, It Isn't Consensus. Period.

All Your Life People Will Tell You Things. And Most Of The Time, Probably Ninety-five Percent Of The Time, What They'll Tell You Will Be Wrong.

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