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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Guess ew said *this* (Answer)
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 17:54:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 17:54:54 1985
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> This quote is less famous, so it may be more difficult.
>
>     THEY'RE REPEATING THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE.  There's
>     nothing in the world more fascinating than watching a child grow and
>     develop.  At first you think of it as just a matter of growing bigger.
>     Then, as the infant begins to do things, you may think of it as
>     "learning tricks."  But it's really more complicated and full of
>     meaning than that.  The development of each child retraces the whole
>     history of the human race, physically and spiritually, step by step.
>     Babies start off in the womb as a single tiny cell, just the way the
>     first living thing apeared in the ocean.  Weeks later, as they lie in
>     the amniotic fluid in the womb, they have gills like fish.  Toward the
>     end of the first year of life, when they learn to clamber to their
>     feet, they're celebrating that period millions of years ago when our
>     ancestors got up off all fours.  It's just at that time that babies
>     are learning to use their fingers with skill and delicacy.  Our
>     ancestors stood up because they had found more useful things to do
>     with their hands than walking on them.

Benjamin Spock said it!

It's from _Baby and Child Care_, Pocket Books, New York, 1976.

I think it's garbage, of course.  Misinformation, etc.
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