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Quotes from Mourning and Funerals—For Whom — Theodosius Dobzhansky

1900–1975 Russia

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Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Mourning and Funerals—For Whom (1977)

No known human group . . . simply throw[s] out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Mourning and Funerals—For Whom (1977)

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