Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persisten…

Lewis Thomas
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1984). Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Bantam
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We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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