Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Surely, the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world.


Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Chapter V (p. 310), W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1989


Surely, the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely...

Surely, the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely...

Surely, the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely...

Surely, the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely...