Because Quote by Lynn Margulis

“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.” quote by Lynn Margulis — Download Open 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 imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.”

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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…

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“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…

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“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We…

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“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

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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…

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I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

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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…

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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

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Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

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The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

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Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us…

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