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Comment by danieltillett

I am not too sure we know how Cyanobacteria arose (I did my Ph.D. on them) nor how mitochondria arose. Given how rampant horizontal gene transfer is I doubt we ever will.

I think the most interest question in this early biology is why LUCA is so complex [1]. We have a massive gap between abiotic processes and the first organism we know anything about. What happened.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor

parent danieltillett 10 years ago

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