t if you found a pocket cantly perceivet it elligent entity. So it scomplexity s design. tion eentury,and it gave Darrouble too. “to tter to a friend. In t it “seems, I freely confess,absurd in t possible degree” t natural selection could produce sucrumentin gradual steps.

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