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covingtoncat73 · 04-23-2021, 09:54 AM

“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he would write a fit of histrionic despair, such as “I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything,”

“Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning."

“For a century the Neanderthal people have worn a stigma of hunched brutish grunting cavemen. Facial reconstructions of their skulls show them to look not exactly like us, and not exactly pretty. But beauty is a very subjective matter, and just because you don’t fancy them doesn’t mean that your ancestors didn’t. They definitely had sex with them.”

― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

/A very fun recent audibook "listen." I love listening to nonfiction audiobooks when working.

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covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he would write a fit of histrionic despair, such as “I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything,” “Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning." “For a century the Neanderthal people have worn a stigma of hunched brutish grunting cavemen. Facial reconstructions of their skulls show them to look not exactly like us, and not exactly pretty. But beauty is a very subjective matter, and just because you don’t fancy them doesn’t mean that your ancestors didn’t. They definitely had sex with them.” ― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes /A very fun recent audibook "listen." I love listening to nonfiction audiobooks when working. Last edited by covingtoncat73; 04-23-2021 at 09:57 AM.