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How do we know it only happened once? Maybe it happened multiple times but only one version survived while the others were outcompeted?
by VMG 2y ago
How do we know it only happened once? Maybe it happened multiple times but only one version survived while the others were outcompeted?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> How do we know it only happened once? We don't. But we know we can't replicate it, have never observed it, don't seem to find half-assed attempts at it in the wild and that there weren't multiple competing chemistries that found themselves co-existing, there was one.
- stoperaticless 2y agoI would like to present you with Chlamydia. I find it remarkable that chlamydia cells, fully enter host cells and live there stealing of resources. I would call it evolutions “half-assed attempt” at endosymbiosis. (Disclaimer: evolution has no goal)