Think of a frog as a functional machine designed to produce baby frogs. This is the Darwinian view, and is really what evolution is all about. In ord… - Frederik Pohl

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Think of a frog as a functional machine designed to produce baby frogs. This is the Darwinian view, and is really what evolution is all about. In order to succeed, the frog has to stay alive long enough to grow up and get pregnant or get some female frog pregnant. That means it has to do two things. It has to eat. And it has to avoid being eaten.

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About Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction writer and editor, with a career spanning over seventy-five years.

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Birth Name: Frederik George Pohl, Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederik Pohl II • Edson McCann • Jordan Park • Elton V. Andrews • Paul Fleur • Lee Gregor • Warren F. Howard • Scott Mariner • Ernst Mason • James McCreigh • Dirk Wilson • Donald Stacy
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See, there's a bit of a problem here. It's true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you're dumb enough to try to give it to them they don't recognize it. When they ask for 'different,' what they mean is something right down the good old 'different' groove.
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