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“Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula,…” quote by David Attenborough
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“Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.”

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