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Chapter 9: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short

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Ava's Life Work

Zebulon: "I've watched these people for six years, and all of those things that Hobbes describes, I saw none of it. These people are happy. They have community." Zebulon says Ava should quit her scientific endeavors because moving society ever forward has just made us more miserable. The goal of evolution isn't happiness; it's only about having a lot of babies," he adds.

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