FAIRY STORY. “The eukaryogenesis story as usually told (and exemplified in our epigraphs) is a sort of metascientific narrative, invaluable in motivating and positioning new research activities of all sorts and organizing existing bodies of knowledge in our minds and our textbooks. However, it is as much rhetoric as fact, and the public, not to mention biologists themselves, may often conflate the two.”
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