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When I am finished, Australopithie bears at least a vague resemblance to his pre-human evolutionary inspiration. He trots in small, bouncy steps around a grassy plain, making chattering noises and staring at the horizon of his simulated world with a wide-eyed look that I like to think approximates innocent wonder. Lest I feel too superior, I think back again to Charles Darwin. As the great scientist once wrote: “Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system - with all these exalted powers - Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” I only wonder if my own distant ancestors could dance like this little guy can.

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