"Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others."
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Propos d’un Normand (1908); reported in D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich, "Natural selection and cultural rates of change", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (2008) pp. 3416–3420
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