Dr. Jim reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Laws of Variation, Chapter 5, Part 2:


Darwin wrote at p. 102 "For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps very different constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse, the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra."

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