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"MULTICELLULARITY may also have been initiated by interactions between bacteria and protists." https://lnkd.in/ddVyNR5 View in LinkedIn

"SYMBIOSIS has been critically important in macroevolutionary innovation. eukaryotic cells are themselves the result of several symbioses." https://lnkd.in/ddVyNR5 View in LinkedIn

BOLTING ON. "Negotiated surveillance is a general mechanism that has evolved to permit the incorporation of potentially self-replicating parts into coherent wholes. We see this, as Lynn Margulis long predicted we would, in the main transitions in evolution." https://lnkd.in/ddVyNR5 View in LinkedIn

GROUP VALUES WIN. "Alleles can spread throughout a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, irrespective of the alleles' effect on the fitness of individuals within that group." https://lnkd.in/ddVyNR5 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR BEHAVIOR. "We describe the initial realization of behavior in the biosphere, which we term behavioral chemistry. If molecules are complex enough to attain a stochastic element to their structural conformation in such as a way as to radically affect their function in a biological (evolvable) setting, then they have the capacity to behave." https://lnkd.in/ddnX_69 View in LinkedIn

HIGHER LEVEL SELECTION. "Can it be that organisms are selected as multigenomic associations? Is the fittest in life's struggle the multispecies group, and not an individual of a single species in that group?" https://lnkd.in/ddVyNR5 View in LinkedIn

BACTERIOPHAGES are viruses that prey on bacteria."Given that phages are relatively specific, are capable of rapid adaptation, and are often obligate killers of their host cells, they can impose strong selection on bacterial populations and shape microbial communities." https://lnkd.in/dPdrQyr View in LinkedIn

MODULAR HYPOTHESIS. "According to the modular hypothesis, phages do not show vertical evolution in the Darwinian sense and it makes no sense to draw an evolutionary tree for phages." (Bacteriophages or phages are viruses that prey on bacteria). https://lnkd.in/e6G-N4S View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES: ORGANISMS AT THE EDGE OF LIFE. "It could be postulated that the replicate function of all RNA viruses is an ancient common evolutionary feature or dating ' cassette' assembly, as it is the basis for the existence of these viruses, and probably evolved only once. One may draw a neat phylogenetic tree on the basis of...polymerase/ replicase genes only." https://lnkd.in/d_sQRmR View in LinkedIn

PROMISCUOUS BEASTIES. "Classical approaches to classification are not suitable for viruses, as rigid hierarchies can't be imposed on organisms that appear -- evolutionarily speaking -- to been rather promiscuous in sharing their characteristics around." https://lnkd.in/d_sQRmR View in LinkedIn