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Inheritance

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What's the Cold Logic of Darwinian Evolution?

The idea that they could be constrained by their d an, a that maybe one of us gave them a bit of dan a that's going to hold them back. Thatis the cold logic of darwinian evolution y. It's a terrible thag s this letter. I hear all. And so what you do, i think all parents do this, is that you slip into this lamarchian delusion that nos what you do with your kids can somehow rewrite all that. Like, i don't know. Their their blueprint. But wouldn't it be nice if that's how it workedne,. let's read the book first, teals, because, you know, now that

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