"The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress."

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To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

— Leonardo da Vinci