Change biology, and you could change society--but could you change society on its own? Were we as a species simply condemned to permanent misery, all because of how we have evolved? This was the conundrum that the Oankali books had posed to her, and the Parables had been intended (but failed) to solve: How do you create a more sustainable, more benign, more livable society when you're stuck working with human beings? . Gerry Canavan
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In 1989, Dr. Jane Goodall was dismayed to hear a chimpanzee's familiar call for an apple. She had thought she could convince the chimpanzees not to make a fuss, but they simply took the fruit and went away. "The chimpanzee is going to be human," she later wrote, "if we don't change our ways." Dr.

Goodall has been involved in many social issues such as conservation and animal rights. The message in this quote is that if we change our ways then we will change society, but if we don't then we will not be able to change society.

Source: Octavia E. Butler

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