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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown t...

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Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiar...

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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic...

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Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that n...

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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing materi...

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I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary chang...

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There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a sp...

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Lynn Margulis

Biologist

Born: 1938-03-05

Died: 2011-11-22

Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American biologist, university professor, and author who developed a theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and contributed to the endosymbiotic theory. She showed that animals, plants, and fungi originated from Protists. She also contributed to the development of the Gaia hypothesis with James Lovelock.More