People often assume that anyone who studies evolution thinks that everything should be about the survival of the fittest. However, this makes no more sense than assuming that anyone who studies glaciers thinks that everything should be done really, really slowly.

— Steve Stewart-Williams Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010)

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