Re: Symbiosis, mitochondria, the liver and other organs


unrestrained_hand@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've never heard of any such thing. But a close concept is symbiosis of
> two or more *current organisms. We have e. coli in our gut, and eye
> lice which keep eyelash dandruff down. We would not be normal or
> completely heathy if we were missing either of these. There may be
> others I don't know of. Maybe incorporating their DNA just isn't going
> to work after we've already gone metazoan.

I was thinking preCambrian, while we were still pond slime.
Obviously, it's no longer on.

Cordially;

Friar Broccoli
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