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Which may well be the only reason we exist, too.
by pklausler 11y ago
Which may well be the only reason we exist, too.
- ethbro 11y agohttp://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/ The most recent Radiolab was about an idea that the existence of cellular organelles are the product of an extremely unlikely merging of two cells that didn't immediately die afterwards. Stemming from the observation that we had an extremely long period of simple life, coupled with a sudden explosion where life rapidly increased in size and complexity. A 0.0...01% likelihood event will still happen, given an entire planet of simple cells and hundreds of millions of years.