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Re:Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest rel... by __loam on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:23AM (#38470332)
The theory that eukaryotic cells are just a bunch of bacterial subsystems that happened to start cooperating is one of the cooler points in the biology iceberg. Up there with chickens descended from the T Rex for me.
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Re:Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest rel... by bonzini on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:21AM (#38470678)
> Up there with chickens descended from the T Rex for me.

Archaeopteryx lived in the Jurassic, so it's not really possible that chicken descended from the T Rex. They're cousins though.

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Re:Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest rel... by isaacfrond on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:06AM (#38471354)
Actually, Archaeopteryx is not an ancestor to chickens either...

Archaeopteryx is offshoot in the evolutionary path leading to birds. It shares a common ancestor with modern birds but branched off in a direction that did not lead directly to them.

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Re:Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest rel... by euroderf on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:57AM (#38470897)
The Great Chicken God decries your heresy!
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Re:Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest rel... by culi on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:08AM (#38473688)
You'd love the highly influential 2015 paper, Major evolutionary transitions in individuality

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112

> The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary transitions. These transitions have been characterized by individuals that could previously replicate independently, cooperating to form a new, more complex life form. For example, [...]

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