On 04/08/2011 01:26 PM, Mike the Elder wrote:

> I haven't really reached any firm conclusions with regard to the Endosymbiotic
> Hypothesis (basically, the idea that symbiotic cooperation and merging of
> simpler life forms played a major role in the development of more complex ones),
> but I think it has enough going for it to merit serious consideration.

I've read a couple of references which treat this as an established 
scientific /fact/. (Which, I realise, doesn't necessarily mean a lot.) 
I'm no expert in this field, but it appears that most consensus agrees 
with this theory.

At least, at the moment. It is in the nature of almost /all/ scientific 
theories that one day we'll decide it's total nonsense and the truth is 
something completely different...

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