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 Copy Share Image
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… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share
“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
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… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life? — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
