In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species. (E. O. Wilson)

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

E. O. Wilson

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