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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of a new organism through the merging of two or more free-living organisms. Some biologists believe that symbiogenesis is an important mechanism of evolutionary change.
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- noun biology The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.
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Examples
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Thus Lynn Margulis criticizes neo-Darwinism as a religion, unable to account for speciation, and that her theory of symbiogenesis is the only one that can.
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She gets funded for work in symbiogenesis so it's only natural that she promotes her own lab's business.
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Such cell mergers are known as "symbiogenesis," long championed as an evolutionary force by the recently deceased biologist, Lynn Margulis .
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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Such cell mergers are known as "symbiogenesis," long championed as an evolutionary force by the recently deceased biologist, Lynn Margulis .
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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Thus Lynn Margulis criticizes neo-Darwinism as a religion, unable to account for speciation, and that her theory of symbiogenesis is the only one that can.
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I don't think (perhaps mistakenly) that there has been much empirical support for her views on symbiogenesis among animals and plants, so symbiogenesis is still isn't mainstream.
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This is what Margulis calls symbiogenesis and it led to the formation of higher cells, known as the Eukarya.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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It's remarkable that even though processes like hybridization and symbiogenesis have been well-known for decades, many neo-Darwinists firmly insist on gradualism in evolutionary change.
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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It's remarkable that even though processes like hybridization and symbiogenesis have been well-known for decades, many neo-Darwinists firmly insist on gradualism in evolutionary change.
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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The most obvious example of symbiogenesis comes in the form of little lozenge-shaped structures called mitochondria.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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