Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
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Re: Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
#2OT but a pretty filthy dark pattern for the cookie banner on science.org - as I went to dismiss their newsletter popular on mobile another one (presumably the ‘allow cookies’ popup) quickly took its place so I’d click it.
Stuff like this really puts me off a site
Re: Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
#3Is there anyway to know what the actual ancestor looked like? Thanks to HGT isn’t it pretty difficult to determine when a gene entered the ancestral line?
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#4Is there anyway to know what the actual ancestor looked like? Thanks to HGT isn’t it pretty difficult to determine when a gene entered the ancestral line?
Probably a mini Cthulhu or something
Re: Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
#5This article linked near the bottom is pretty interesting w.r.t. the origin of eukaryotes. IANA biologist, but it seems to make a pretty good case that taking on mitochondria led directly to a lot of the other eukaryotic complexity. I wasn't previously convinced why it couldn't have gone the other way. https://elifesciences.org/articles/81033
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#6I finally start to see a clear story in the evolution of cell types to complex life. Are there valuable adversary/competing hypothesis?
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#7Me: “Grandpapa, is that you?”
Tentacled microbe: ::Cthulhu noises::
Re: Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
#8This article linked near the bottom is pretty interesting w.r.t. the origin of eukaryotes. IANA biologist, but it seems to make a pretty good case that taking on mitochondria led directly to a lot of the other eukaryotic complexity. I wasn't previously convinced why it couldn't have gone the other way. https://elifesciences.org/articles/81033
This is the thesis of the book “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane. It’s a pretty interesting read. At points the book was slightly beyond my reach in comprehension but I still enjoyed it.
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#9Re: Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
#10Is there anyway to know what the actual ancestor looked like? Thanks to HGT isn’t it pretty difficult to determine when a gene entered the ancestral line?
HGT?