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Yori, Human purpose isn't what you say it is or what I say it is. It's what your biology says it is—what your genes say it is. - Octavia E. Butler
" "Yori, Human purpose isn't what you say it is or what I say it is. It's what your biology says it is—what your genes say it is.
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About Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the very few African-American women in the field.
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Octavia Estelle Butler
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Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
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