"Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public."

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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

— E. O. Wilson