"The oxygen crisis that began only two billion years ago prompted the evolution of respiring bacteria. These microbes …"

"[The smallest bacterium] is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already …"

"Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming f…"

"There is little doubt that the planetary patina—including ourselves—is autopoietic. Life at the surface of the Earth …"

"From the paramecium to the human race, all life forms are meticulously organized, sophisticated aggregates of evolvin…"

"The view of evolution as a chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin's…"

"Not only did life originate on earth very early in its history as a planet, but for the first two billion years, Eart…"

"The fundamental division of forms of life on Earth is not that between plants and animals, as is commonly assumed, bu…"

"In the long run, the most vicious predators, like most dread disease-causing microbes, bring about their own ruin by …"

"I work in evolutionary biology, but with cells and microorganisms. Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith, George Willia…"