Lynn Margulis believed viruses often become symbionts, and speculated that diseases like syphilis and AIDS are so hard to cure because the viruses incorporate t

Lynn Margulis believed viruses often become symbionts, and speculated that diseases like syphilis and AIDS are so hard to cure because the viruses incorporate themselves into our genome. She also believed that the Eastern Bloc concept of symbiogenesis explains much of human evolution, and some of that is now accepted by the mainstream community. For instance, it is now believed that mitochondria were originally viruses that became symbionts. However, Margulis and many adherents of this view argue that essentially all of the organelles formed this way, and that symbionts play a vastly larger role in general. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/discover-interview-lynn-margulis-says-shes-not-controversial-shes-right https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/discover-inter...