
EvolutionNovember 23, 2011
Did Sex Emerge from Cannibalism? Sex, Death and Kefir. By Lynn Margulis (1938–2011)
Microorganisms trying to eat one another may have led to the symbiotic merger of their genes—and also started the process of aging

Did Sex Emerge from Cannibalism? Sex, Death and Kefir. By Lynn Margulis (1938–2011)
Microorganisms trying to eat one another may have led to the symbiotic merger of their genes—and also started the process of aging

Sex, Death and Kefir

Symbiosis and Evolution
The cells of higher plants and animals have specialized organelles such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. There is increasing reason to believe that these organelles were once independent organisms