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... He then goes on to ask, if mind evolved and was selectecl merely for its survival value, "to let us get along in the cave, how can it that (it) permits us to obtain creep insights into cosmology, elementary particles, molecular genetics, number theory?
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From page 104...
... 3~. In fact he never lost his interest or skill in theoretical physics ant!
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... MAX LUDWIG HENNING DELBRUCK 105 embryo, unlike Hippocrates's theory that the semen consists of extracts or miniatures of each part of the body as in the later homuncuTus model. Incleec3, two of AristotIe's arguments from observation, that the semen may determine either male or female, and that inheritance of skin colour can skip a generation, could well have served as a basis for Menclel's laws!
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