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You and I are directly related to every other living thing on the earth. With our closest relatives — our parents, brothers, and sisters — we need only take a casual look to see the family resemblance. The same casual glance will show my close relationship to you, and our close kinship to all other men and women. We are all negligibly different, varying only in nuances of proportion and subtleties of shade.
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Goodsell, D.S. (1993). Introduction. In: The Machinery of Life. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2267-3_1
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