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Whenever I read a description of the multiverse, it always talks about human decisions causing...

Whenever I read a description of the multiverse, it always talks about human decisions causing branches. What about animals and the decisions they make? Does my hamster deciding to eat the apple first rather than the pea cause a new branch?

Brian Fairchild, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

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