Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Sadly I discovered that Lyn Margolis, a brilliant scientist, passed this past tuesday at the age of 73. She brought attention to the fact that much of the history of life on the planet occurred before 500 million years ago and depended on earlier life forms where symbiosis between primitive bacteria evolved to become the eukrayotic cells which form all the advanced organisms on our planet and they are all related so closely to one another because of this.
Paul Hosefos/The New York Times: Lynn Margulis, wearing her National Medal of Science Award.
When she first published her findings, she was scorned. Since then, here work has become the foundation and dogma of evolutionary biology and the basis for subsequent genetic evolutionary adaption.
I had the great pleasure of meeting her in Boston University when I started my Ph.D.
I'm so sorry to read of her passing!
The take home message is that we are first and foremost communities of life. So our roll as individuals depend on mutual support even at the most microscopic level. We should not forget that.
Asher
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Paul Hosefos/The New York Times: Lynn Margulis, wearing her National Medal of Science Award.
When she first published her findings, she was scorned. Since then, here work has become the foundation and dogma of evolutionary biology and the basis for subsequent genetic evolutionary adaption.
I had the great pleasure of meeting her in Boston University when I started my Ph.D.
I'm so sorry to read of her passing!
The take home message is that we are first and foremost communities of life. So our roll as individuals depend on mutual support even at the most microscopic level. We should not forget that.
Asher
Read more here