The Garden Of Ediacara
Summary:
I came across this lovely evocative passage in Nick Lane's book Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death."You are not completely spineless. You have a notochord: a flexible rod made of cartilage, which in your descendant, millions of generations hence, will develop into a proper backbone. For now, you flex your rod like an eel to undulate through the water, never quite fast enough.
Content analysis:
Keywords:
biology