"Have you ever stopped to see seagulls suspended in the wind? If all beings on earth disappeared and only the seagulls remained, and maybe the little fish for their food, perhaps you think that from the seagulls, with the passing of millions of years, the animals that inhabit the earth and also man and perhaps even the frogs, butterflies and minnows? And even if the seagulls disappeared, can you imagine that the little fish of the sea, through gradual transformations, would give rise, at the end of time, to new seagulls or in any case to some new kind of sea bird capable of hovering in the air?"
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As quoted in Le forme della vita (1981), Armando editore.
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Giuseppe Sermonti
Giuseppe Sermonti (October 4, 1925 – December 16, 2018) was an Italian Roman Catholic biologist and essayist.
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