Biology needs a better word than "error" for the driving force in evolution. Or maybe "error" will do after all, when you remember that it came from an old root meaning to wander about, looking for something.


The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, The Wonderful Mistake (p. 30), The Viking Press. 1979

Lewis Thomas Quotes

Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. Or maybe error will do after all, when you remember that it came from an...

Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. Or maybe error will do after all, when you remember that it came from an...

Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. Or maybe error will do after all, when you remember that it came from an...

Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. Or maybe error will do after all, when you remember that it came from an...