John Tyler Bonner Quotes
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My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on…
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When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that…
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As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its…
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The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
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There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals,…
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It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that…
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Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it…
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Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and…
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