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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."

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"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."

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"Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three inborn fears -of falling, snakes, and the dark-corresponding respectively to the dangers posed byNewtonian gravitation to tree-dwellers, by our ancient enemies the reptiles, and by mammalian nocturnal predators, which must have been particularly terrifying for the visually oriented primates."

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