Who said "Every organism tells the story of deep time."?

This quote is attributed to Alfred Hershey.

Every organism tells the story of deep time. - Alfred Hershey

"Every organism tells the story of deep time."

Alfred Hershey History

Molecular Biologist American 1908–1997

"The gene is the unit of selection, the level at which natural selection operates most effectively."

"We are all survival machines for our genes."

"Bacterial genetics opened up the entire field of molecular biology."

"The phage group changed everything we thought we knew about heredity."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."