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Quotes from Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors — Lynn Margulis

1938–2011 United States

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Not only did life originate on earth very early in its history as a planet, but for the first two billion years, Earth was inhabited solely by bacteria.

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)

The fundamental division of forms of life on Earth is not that between plants and animals, as is commonly assumed, but between prokaryotes—organisms composed of cells with no nucleus, that is, bacteria—and eukaryotes—all other life forms.

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lynn Margulis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.