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If Twitter had been around in Charles Darwin’s day, he would have been science’s one-liner king. To celebrate the iconic biologist’s 210th birthday, we turned his saddest, meanest, and funniest quotes into tweets. 👇
For more of Darwin’s wisdom and cattiness, see our collection of his best quotes. He produced enough to fill a burn book 👉 pops.ci/darwinquotes
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