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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
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.
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Gould probably looks pretty unattractive at the moment.
