The chemical reactions responsible for evolution, for change, for mediating interactions, transformations—the mechanism of which partially hidden in the fabric of nature—may seem only marginally important at first glance, but they are in fact centrally important to understanding how metamorphosis of the small-scale structures of the universe actually work—to the formation of animate and inanimate objects; organic and inorganic substances, botanical and zoological species; including flickering fireflies, apathetic reptiles, shrieking primates and inquisitive human beings.
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