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EVOLUTION
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles

Darwin

All life on Earth can be traced back to the “Last Universal Common Ancestor”, which is estimated to have
lived about 3.5 to 3.8 billion years back on Earth. These earliest organisms have evolved into the diversity
of life on Earth we see today. Yes, we are distant cousins of the Sunflower, the beetle and the blue Whale.

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