All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first mol — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first mol — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first mol — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first mol — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first mol — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

— Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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