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Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life

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The Origins of the Eukaryotes

In 1977, Wozniacki said that the Tree of Life had three major limbs. He was responding to a theory by Lynn Margolis called endosymbatic theory. Now evidence points to an arkion being responsible for giving rise to eukaryotes. The Loki Yarkiota are a group of arkions, so this group the archaea.

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