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Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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Birmingham
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