Some researchers answered no. Evolutionist Lynn Margulis showed that a major organizational event in the history of life probably involved the merging of two or more lineages through …

The 1967 article “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells” in the Journal of Theoretical Biology by Lynn Margulis (then Lynn Sagan) is widely regarded as stimulating renewed interest in the long …

In the last decade of her life, while key components of her life's work began to be understood as fundamental to a modern scientific viewpoint – the widespread adoption of Earth System …

Oct 3, 2023 · In 1967, Lynn Margulis proposed that eukaryotic cells, with their complex structures and organelles, resulted from symbiotic relationships between ancestral prokaryotic cells. He …

Apr 29, 2025 · First proposed by Boston University biologist Lynn Margulis in the late 1960s, the Endosymbiont Theory proposed that the main organelles of the eukaryotic cell were actually …

Lynn Margulis (born March 5, 1938, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died November 22, 2011, Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American biologist whose serial endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic …

Dec 7, 2017 · In her first book Lynn Margulis wrote about blue-green algae, protozoa, eukaryotic flagella, and depicted graphically the evolution of eukaryotic cells by serial symbiosis, paying …

Mar 28, 2024 · Margulis championed the endosymbiotic theory, which postulated a radically different mechanism for the evolution of eukaryotic cells. According to this theory, certain …

Jan 20, 2012 · Lynn Margulis, who died on 22 November 2011 at the age of 73, was a striking example of the latter group. She is responsible for the transformative idea that eukaryotic cells …

For the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, the predominating theory is known as the Endosymbiotic Theory. The Endosymbiotic Theory of Eukaryote Evolution (Symboitic Theory) was first …