“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.”

— Octavia E. Butler , book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 10 (p. 101)

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American science fiction writer 1947–2006

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