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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
This book is what you're talking about?
Have you read it? I couldn't get through the whole thing, but the part I did get through isn't doing what you think. She (and she is no Eva S in the looks dept.) is proposing a way that a change in an individual can become a fixed characteristic of a population.
She does not mention ANY way that a single cell can develop an organ system. Also, she certainly does not explain how to test the non-existant theory. Soup says we have to be able to prove stuff.
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I was referring to her more widely known theories regarding endosymbiosis, which led to her theory of symbiogenesis. I provided endosymbiosis as an example of how a specialized structure might have arisen inside a single-celled organism, and as a backdoor introduction to her theories of symbiogenesis as a mechanism for the development of an organ system.
Regardless of whether you buy the latter, it is silly to say that evolution requires that a single cell can develop an organ system. Evolutionary mechanisms are the subject of great debate and theories like those of Gould and Margulis continue to move the field forward - regardless of how attractive or ugly their authors might be.
