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Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

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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?

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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 walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

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All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

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Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

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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 biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

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All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of 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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 5th, 1938

Died: November 22nd, 2011

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