“It's evident that Darwin saw evolution not as progressive or improving, but as an activity that happens moment by moment. From this it is clear that evolution has no plan. It has neither memory nor foresight. No vestige of cosmic strivings from some remote beginning; no prospect of revelatory culmination in some transcendent end.”

—  Henry Gee

The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, by Henry Gee, p. 12

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