"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."
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Academics from RussiaNational Medal of Science laureatesGeneticistsBiologists from RussiaZoologists from Russia
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
russisch-amerikanischer Genetiker, Zoologe und Evolutionsbiologe
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