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The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.
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Simon Conway Morris
British
Scientist
Born:
1951
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every Man
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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James Nasmyth
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Paul Tsongas
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every Man
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Frank Delaney
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