Lynn Margulis Quotes
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
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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 was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new s . . . Read more

-Lynn Margulis
New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

-Lynn Margulis
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficie . . . Read more

-Lynn Margulis
Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite.

-Lynn Margulis
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What kind of grad student do you take? “I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

-Lynn Margulis
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