"Man, in that sense, will never die, because there may never be a taxonomical point in his evolutionary progress that can be determined as the last stage of man in the cline turning him into Neohomo, or some horrible throbbing slime."
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Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)
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