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> It appears that this began to evolve around 100 million years ago, which sounds like an incredibly long time but is a blink of an eye compared to mitochondria
by sethammons 3y ago
> It appears that this began to evolve around 100 million years ago, which sounds like an incredibly long time but is a blink of an eye compared to mitochondria and chloroplasts.
From the title, I assumed they saw the genius of this extremely rare event. Very new in terms of life on Earth, but not something that first happened this year.