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Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
Born: Mar 5, 1938
Died: Nov 22, 2011
Even Itself Life People Selection You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. Lynn Margulis
Life Good You World Made Beginning Differences Living Beneath Our Earth Bacteria Superficial Good Story Miss Walking Afford Tiny Cannot Story Us Landscape Communities Beings
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis
Everybody Like Look Caterpillar Knows Anything Butterfly
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. Lynn Margulis
Life You Atoms Year Skin Every Months Sign Percent Weeks New Days Sure Sure Sign Non-Stop Metabolism Chemical Continuously Lining Itself Replaced Replacement Five Get Stomach Six Order Body Your Your Body Liver Two
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. Lynn Margulis
Environmental Food Plants Animals Organic Living Danger Recognize Must Seek Perceive Least Survive Just Being To Survive Avoid Beings
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! Lynn Margulis
You Everywhere Evolution See Sometime Outside Study Because Got Go Want Really
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves. Lynn Margulis
Animals Own Our Furry Corpse Exactly Sexuality Embryo Directly Indirectly Exciting Forefathers Fertile Provocative Selves Wet Egg Either Warm Us Compelled
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. Lynn Margulis
Change Random Evidence Evolutionary Mutations Over New Looked Until Led Accumulate Taught Again Believed Species
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution? Lynn Margulis
Life Natural Enough Ancestry Evolution Has-Been Selection Driver Arisen New Occurred Scientists Been Question Common Explain Natural Selection Agree Groups Biological Extinction
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. Lynn Margulis
Truth Our Detail Sexual Sexuality Objectives Objects Vary Vastly Undeniable Although Existence Itself Energies
Life learned early on to recognize itself. Lynn Margulis
Life Recognize Learned Itself Early
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. Lynn Margulis
History You People Plants Think Earth Would Almost Almost All Period Without Die Going Rid Ridiculous Flowering Save
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. Lynn Margulis
Ecology Human Human Consciousness Ask Compare Consciousness

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