"Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking"
Lynn Margulis. —— Symbiosis in Cell Evolution
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She does, however, hold a negative view of certain interpretations of Neo-Darwinism, excessively focused on inter-organismic competition, as she believes that history will ultimately judge them as comprising "a minor twentieth-century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon Biology." She also believes that proponents of the standard theory "wallow in their zoological, capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin - having mistaken him... "
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Yay Lynn Margulis! I just sent this very same Wikipedia page to a friend on Friday.
Mike, I just ran across her while researching the Grossinger book of the last post. She seems to be my next read, but who knows how I'll come out of the one I'm reading.
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