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? Lynn Margulis appearancearrogancecombine share on social
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! Lynn Margulis evolutionhavestudy Change image and share on social
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. Lynn Margulis accumulationbelievechange Change image and share on social
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger. Lynn Margulis animalavoidbeing Change image and share on social
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. Lynn Margulis createearthlife Change image and share on social
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. Lynn Margulis compareconsciousnessecology Change image and share on social
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. Lynn Margulis continuedifferencedrive share on social
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis butterflycaterpillar Change image and share on social
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 subfields of biology, even geology. Lynn Margulis biologyboundarybuild Change image and share on social
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's 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. Lynn Margulis dieearthflower share on social
