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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes:

Ocupation: Paleontologist

Life: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Birthday: September 10

Death: May 20

No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (1998). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Harmony

topic: Cells, Peculiar, Benefits, Reversal

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