"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."

Work, Animals, Inventions, Problems

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"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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