Quotes About Lynn Margulis

Parasitism and symbiosis were the true basis for evolutionary change. These processes lay at the heart of all evolution, and had been present from the very beginning. Lynn Margulis was famous for demonstrating that bacteria had originally developed nuclei by swallowing other bacteria.

action, and there are also structures so distinct from the rest of the cell 'jelly', like cells within cells, that the best explanation of their presence is that that is indeed what they are. These semi-autonomous 'cells within the cell' are called organelles. As we saw in Chapter Four, Lynn Margulis has explained how the ancestors of the organelles used to be separate, bacteria