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12 quotes by John Tyler Bonner

John Tyler Bonner (born May 12, 1920) is an emeritus professor, now lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and is one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime moulds. Arizona State University says that the establishment and growth of...
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It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

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The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was... →

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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the... →

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That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it... →

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There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and... →

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My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

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Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and... →

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As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms;... →

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Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it another way... →

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The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual... →

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When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that time.... →

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