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Summary and Conclusions

“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.”

—Edwin Conklin

Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis, Oxford University Press, 1994.

 

“[S]cience consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systematic reflection or reasoning. … It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception.”

—Joseph Alexander Leighton

The Field of Philosophy, Wentworth Press, 2019.

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