🚀 go-pugleaf

david ford quotes:

> "In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours
> with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water.
> Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant,
> and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I
> can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural
> selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with
> larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a
> whale."-_On the Origin of Species_ (1859), original edition, pg. 184.

Gods, that man was *in*credible! _Every_ time I open _Origin_, I come
across a total *gem* like this one. It's so damn exciting, I haven't
even gotten around to sitting down and reading it straight through (but
I will!). 

Thanks for the quote!
-- 
Susan
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