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CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine
The Next Big Idea
The Evolution of Complex Organisms
I was fascinated by your description of this evolutionary biologist, Lynn Margulis's case she made in 1967. This notion that the first multicellular organisms may have been actually separate organisms joining forces is amazing. There's a lot of evidence for it, molecular, genetic, and other evidence for it. And we are not only assemblages of cells in a macroscopic sense but our cells are really assemblage of some ancient cell that swallowed a bacterial cell to find an advantage.
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