Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.


Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (1972)

Jacques Monod Quotes

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the...

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the...

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the...

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the...