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— Samuel Johnson"There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business."
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.
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