“To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved in to Michelangelo’s David. Speech is what man pays homage to in every moment he can imagine.”
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Evolution can still be the backbone; it's just to say that while a knife was ultimately a creation of evolution, to say the knife created evolution is a bit misleading.
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