We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, f…

Lewis Thomas
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We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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