
Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
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The Outward Urge
There's not much on angelsiistat. There was more with the publisher wanted me to cut it out. I can't wait for your next book. The most dramatic example of losing wings is queen ants, which bite their wings off when they mate and then settle down underground. They sort of epitomize what happened in evolutionary time with the ancestors of dodos and ostriches and elephant birds - flightless cormorants. And that, i think, is the motivation for elan musk to want to colonize mars. That maybe one day this planet will be destroyed, and humanity needst have not put all its eggs in one basket.
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