Title: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Author(s): Richard Dawkins (text), Lalla Ward (illustrations)
Release year: 1995
Publisher: Basic Books
Why in Database: The turtle element appears only in the form of a mention, a citation from the Old Testament that mentions “Turtle”:
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
The poetry is so ravishing that I am reluctant to spoil it by noting that here, too, is an undoubted mutation. Reinsert „dove” after „turtle,” as the modern translations correctly but leadenly do, and hear the cadence collapse.
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