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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
- Lynn Margulis
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#I Am
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All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
- Lynn Margulis
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#Consciousness
#Ecology
#Human
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
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#Life
#New
#Skin
#Two
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
- Lynn Margulis
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#Fire
#Life
#Passion
#Young
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.
- Lynn Margulis
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#Natural Selection
#Natural
Life learned early on to recognize itself.
- Lynn Margulis
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#Itself
#Learned
#Life
#Recognize
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
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#Evolution
#Explain
#Life
#New
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
- Lynn Margulis
#Biology
#Building
#Geology
#People
#Work
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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#Go
#Outside
#See
#Want
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
#Egg
#Own
#Sexuality
#Us
#Warm
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
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#Evidence
#New
#Random
#Taught
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
- Lynn Margulis
#Discipline
#Grow
#Humanity
#Intelligence
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
#Existence
#Objects
#Sexuality
#Truth
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
#Differences
#Good
#Life
#Walking
#World
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
- Lynn Margulis
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#Life
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#More
#Verb
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
- Lynn Margulis
#Anything
#Butterfly
#Knows
#Like
#Look
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
#Living
#Plants
#Survive
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