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Lynn Margulis
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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.
Energy Details Sexuality
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
Oxygen Doe Speak
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.
Passion Fire Cities
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.
Years Differences People
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.
Animal Self Eggs
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Species Fewer Knows
People say i am against darwin. that is ridiculous.
People Ridiculous
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?
Discipline Humanity Arrogance
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. thats 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.
Thinking People Earth
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. no evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.
Loss Wings Population
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?
Groups Extinction Ancestry
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.
Mutation Taught Accumulation
  • Born: March 5, 1938
  • Died: November 22, 2011
  • Occupation: Biologist
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