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Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
– George Gaylord Simpson

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