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“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

— Carl Woese

I hate seaweed.

— Natalie du Toit

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

— Matt Ridley

Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and make new…

— Frances Arnold

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

— Jamie Hyneman

“John McCutcheon has worked out the origins of this weird hierarchy-and it's almost unbelievable in its twists and turns. It begins with Tremblaya, the…

— Ed Yong

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.

— Frances Arnold

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes…

— Pamela Ronald