It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. (John Tyler Bonner)

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

John Tyler Bonner

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