All Animals Undergo Perpetual Transformations; Which Are In Part Produced By Their Own Exertions.

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All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part
produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms
or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
-- Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, 1794 (Darwin's grandfather)

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