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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A symbiotic association in which one or more organisms live inside another, such as bacteria in human intestines.
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- noun ecology A condition of living within the body or cells of another organism.
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Co-evolution is also not mentioned in the current version of this article, nor is endosymbiosis, which is thought to explain the appearance of mitochondria, chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles.
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Co-evolution is also not mentioned in the current version of this article, nor is endosymbiosis, which is thought to explain the appearance of mitochondria, chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles.
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Co-evolution is also not mentioned in the current version of this article, nor is endosymbiosis, which is thought to explain the appearance of mitochondria, chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles.
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Then there’s endosymbiosis, which is genetically equivalent to complete fusion of two previously independent genomes.
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Whereas neo-Darwinists are willing to accept endosymbiosis or symbiogenesis, she will have none of theirs.
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Neo-Darwinists including her ideas of endosymbiosis and symbiogenesis wouldn't mollify her along with theirs.
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He rejects the widely-held notion that endosymbiosis (which led to chloroplasts and mitochondria) was the driving force in the evolution of the eukaryotic cell itself or that it was a determining factor in cellular evolution, because that approach assumes a beginning with fully evolved cells.
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Second, there is a great deal of consensus for endosymbiosis — the idea that prokaryotes in symbiotic relationships eventually led or helped to lead to eukaryotes.
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Margulis is lauded for endosymbiosis, and ignored when she attacks neo-Darwinism in the same way that Behe does.
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Do we need to observe one unicellular organism consume another and subsequently observe the consumed one evolve into an organelle before crediting endosymbiosis as plausible?
Assessing Causality 2008
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