SO ENDS this contemplation of inheritance of symbionts, the loss of the biological individual, and the idea that we are genetic mosaics of many species, and the seemingly outlandish idea that the permanent cellular powerhouses (the mitochondria and chloroplast), could have come about by engulfment of a foreign species, is made more credible by the universal symbiosis between species, genetic streamlining and metabolic outsourcing.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022