Teaching A Stone To Talk

‰ЫПIf the earth were one unified island, a smooth ball, we would all be one species, a tremulous muck. The fact is that when you get down to the business of species formation, you eventually hit some form of reproductive isolation. Cells tend to fuse. Cells tend to engulf each other; primitive creatures tend to move in on each other and on us, to colonize, aggregate, blur. ‰Ы_ As much of the world‰ЫЄs energy seems to be devoted to keeping us apart as it was directed to bringing us here in the first place. ‰Ы_ Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth.‰Ыќ (From ‰ЫПLife on the Rocks: The GalМБpagos‰Ыќ)