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Article: Not such suckers. (cephalopods are fairly sophisticated creatures)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1991
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PEOPLE have always had a rather lofty view of nature. The ladder of life, erected by Aristotle and shored up more firmly 6y Linnaeus, had man at the top. Fur and feathers were on the next rungs down; creepy things with too many legs crawled around at the bottom, just above things with no legs at all. The discovery of natural selection should have broken down this zoological elitism. Darwin's argument was that animals were the way they were simply because that was what fitted them to their environment-there was no natural superiority. But to many eyes, evolution just puts the ladder into time rather than space, rising up from the primaeval ooze with ever more recent and ...
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