What is life?
by Lynn Margulis · first published 1995
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Strongly suggest that you read What is Life by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. In it the authors discuss the evolution of the eukaryotic cell: a multi-part cell that evolved due to penetration or symbiosis of multiple organisms. Pretty much all…
on “Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods” ↗I think it was in Lynn Margulis' book What is Life that I read that sexual reproduction occurs more where there are more parasites, which gives strength to the idea that sex is error correction.
on “Does the human lifespan have a limit?” ↗