"We have language and can build metaphors as skillfully and precisely as ribosomes make proteins. We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' for all of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its developmentalmost instantly after emerging on the earth by any evolutionary standardthe music of Johann Sebastian Bach cannot be all bad.
It is customary to place the date for the beginnings...
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