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No recuerdo qué libro era, pero siempre me acordaré de la frase: «Su anhelo de poderes volátiles condujo inevitablemente a su extinción», y creo que trataba del moa gigante. «¿Qué querrá decir?», se preguntó mi madre, preocupada, ante aquella declaración tristemente darwiniana de mi hermano.
I have forgotten the volume, but will always remember the sentence: ‘Its want of volitary powers led inevitably to its extirpation’, the subject being, I believe, the Giant Moa: ‘What does he mean?’ worried my mother, faced with this bleakly Darwinian pronouncement from my brother.
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