Samuel Butler's famous aphorism that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg has been modernized: the organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.
— Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
Topics: life
Samuel Butler's famous aphorism that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg has been modernized: the organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.
— Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
Topics: life