“Being on Mars will change us in an evolutionary way.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Arkady shook his head vehemently, causing him to spin a little in the air over the table. “No, no, no, no! History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian! So that if we choose to establish certain institutions on Mars, there they will be! And if we choose others, there they will be!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 88)

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