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«Chudischa soprovozhdali nashe bytiyo vo vse vremena. No, s drugoy storony, vyzhivshie posle ih pirshestv kazhdyy raz okazyvalis samymi bystrymi, samymi lovkimi, samymi umnymi. Chudovischa sozdali nashi ruki-nogi, nashi mozgi i orudiynuyu deyatelnost. My pobedili vseh svoih vragov: oni libo v paleontologicheskom muzee, libo v menyu, libo v Krasnoy Knige, libo prinosyat nam tapochki i murchat na divane, libo rastvoreny v nashey nasledstvennosti. No tut taitsya, vozmozhno, glavneyshaya opasnost. Glavnyy urok paleontologii: tomu, kto dostig vershiny, bolee nekuda stremitsya, otbor ne dvigaet ego vperyod, k luchshemu. Zastoy i spetsializatsiya obychno zakanchivayutsya vymiraniem. Nyne my — samye krutye na vsey planete. Znachit li eto, chto my bolshe ne budem progressirovat i nam pora vymirat? Bolee togo, my sami chut ne stali chudischami i do sih por prodolzhaem balansirovat na samom krayu, pytayas ne utyanut v globalnoe vymiranie vsyu biosferu Zemli. Vozmozhno, pora uzhe stat okonchatelno razumnymi i vzyat evolyutsiyu pod kontrol? V teorii my mozhem nachat upravlyat zhivoy materiey, veroyatno, eto edinstvennyy sposob sohranit, priumnozhit, razvit i rasprostranit zhizn po Vselennoy. No dlya etogo nam by razobratsya s soboy. A dlya etogo nado myslit zdravo, ratsionalno i stremitsya k luchshemu. I imenno dlya etogo est nauka, v tom chisle — paleontologiya i antropologiya. Vremya chudisch podhodit k kontsu. Nasha zadacha — nachat novuyu epohu — eru Razuma»