LYNN MARGULIS won fame and notoriety for her evolutionary theory of engulfment leading to the formation of the mitochondria and chloroplast. “Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called “perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life” – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria.” (Bacteria of different species, hybrids).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022