Some context I found interesting:<p>The story this excerpt comes from:
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wiki about this excerpt:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines</a>