"No form (including man) is [...] a form derived or improved with respect to some "primitive" progenitor. Man does not derive from primates (in the same way that birds do not derive from reptiles) except in the deceptive sense in which any form can be considered derived "from" the larger group to which it belongs. […] We have given names to the pre-human forms. We called them man-apes, subhumans, or brutes. But did they ever exist, or rather don't they belong to a mythology that has now disappeared?"
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As quoted in La poca scienza dei libri di scienze(2013) by Paolo de Lisi.
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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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