American - Scientist | March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!
Lynn Margulis
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
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Life learned early on to recognize itself.
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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.
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People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
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The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
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Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
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The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
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There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
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