Richard Dawkins quote: Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, ...

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

~ Richard Dawkins ~

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