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Originally Posted by carlton-temple
Bacteria - plants - rain; one wonders if there may not be a symbiotic connection between certain host plants and their respective rain making bacteria involved ? See L.Margulis ect.
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I guess that was what I was suggesting with the rider to my question (see post #1 ) "If so do they do it consciously?"
I had to look up Marguilis Wiki says
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The underlying theme of endosymbiotic theory, as formulated in 1966, was interdependence and cooperative existence of multiple prokaryotic organisms; one organism engulfed another, yet both survived and eventually evolved over millions of years into eukaryotic cells. Her 1970 book, Origin of Eukaryotic Cells, discusses her early work pertaining to this organelle genesis theory in detail. Currently, her endosymbiotic theory is recognized as the key method by which some organelles have arisen (see endosymbiotic theory for a discussion) and is widely accepted by mainstream scientists. The endosymbiotic theory of organogenesis gained strong support in the 1980s, when the genetic material of mitochondria and chloroplasts was found to be different from that of the symbiont's nuclear DNA.[4]
In 1995, prominent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins had this to say about Lynn Margulis and her work:
“ I greatly admire Lynn Margulis's sheer courage and stamina in sticking by the endosymbiosis theory, and carrying it through from being an unorthodoxy to an orthodoxy. I'm referring to the theory that the eukaryotic cell is a symbiotic union of primitive prokaryotic cells. This is one of the great achievements of twentieth-century evolutionary biology, and I greatly admire her for it.[5] ”
[edit] Theory of symbiotic relationships driving evolution
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She opposes such competition-oriented views of evolution, stressing the importance of symbiotic or cooperative relationships between species.
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Lynn Margulis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I just posted an article in the
Terra preta sub forum in the "wee beasties" thread on the 1,000 different bacteria we have growing on our OUTSIDE.
We humans seem to be a symbiotic organism ourselves; alive with bacteria,
in and out. The "soil" (
a symbiotic organism if ever there was one) obviously has a symbiotic relationship with plants.
Can we push the envelope that little bit further and say plants have a symbiotic relationship with the clouds/atmosphere?
Perhaps it is time we asked Gaia for some help in reversing our desecration of the planet?- a new "cooperative relationship between species".
