"It's also easy to look at the existence of a living thing and assume that every detail of its being has been optimized through eons of mutations and selection for a specific and there is an extent to which that's true. The world places all sorts of demands on life: the need for food, for reproduction, for warmth, for light, for dark, for movement. We respond in kind by prioritizing and balancing those needs, and shape is one way we do that."
Journey to the Microcosmos- The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs
Spirochette 400x, Vorticella 200x, Stentor coeruleus 200x, Merismopedia 630x, Xanthidium & Closterium 200x, Bacillaria 200x














