“Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen… comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?”

—  Lynn Margulis

as quoted by Andre Khalil in "As Above, So Below," Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel ed. Dorion Sagan (2012).

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American evolutionary biologist 1938–2011

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