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CURRENT DOGMA. "The modern emphasis on endosymbiotic explanations for numerous eukaryotic features, including the cell itself (the so-called chimeric hypotheses), can be seen not only as resulting from the advent of molecular and genomic data, but also from the intellectual acceptance of the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and plastids." https://lnkd.in/dP2c_bU View in LinkedIn

ENDOSYMBIOSIS THEORY "Still a junior faculty at Boston University at the time, her theory that cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent bacteria was largely ignored for another decade, becoming widely accepted only after it was powerfully substantiated through genetic evidence." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis View in LinkedIn

IDEAS TOO RADICAL. "Throughout her career, Margulis’ work could arouse intense objection (one grant application elicited the response, "Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again"), and her formative paper, "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells," appeared in 1967 after being rejected by about fifteen journals." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis View in LinkedIn

MARGULIS'S ENDOSYMBIOSIS THEORY. "Although the endosymbiotic origin of eukaryotic plastids and mitochondrial organelles is now beyond serious question, the actual process by which bacteria transformed into highly integrated and derived organelles remains contentious. New work in aphids shows that a nuclear-encoded protein resulting from a horizontal gene transfer is targeted to a bacterial symbiont, further blurring the distinction between organelle and symbiont.” https://lnkd.in/d9nk9wh View in LinkedIn

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). https://lnkd.in/et3gdfj View in LinkedIn

MOSTLY ADEQUATE. "The larva and adult phases in development commonly follow totally different ways of life, and the process which Darwin called "descent with modification" and natural selection are frequently adequate to explain the differences in form that adapt them to their different environments." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

NOT SUFFICIENT. "I claim that this theory alone is not adequate to explain why some animals have the embryos and larvae they do and the life histories they do." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

"EVOLUTIONARY theory, as it is today generally accepted, postulates that species evolved from other species in monophyletic lines of descent by the accumulation of gradual hereditable changes.” https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

REBIRTH. "In rare cases, stressed, newly metamorphosed pocilloporid primary polyps are capable of retracting soft tissues from their deposited skeleton and reverting to a motile ‘secondary larva’, which is capable of resettling and re-metamorphosing into another founder polyp." https://lnkd.in/d68A9uu View in LinkedIn

HERESY REVERSED. "When Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859 it was considered heretical by most people. Today, the situation is reversed, and in biological circles at least, it is considered heretical not to agree with Darwin." (1992). https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn