The view of evolution as a chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin's notion of survival of the fittest, dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networkiing. Life forms multiplied and complexified by co-opting others, not just by killing them.

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Lynn Margulis was a 20th-century American evolutionary biologist. Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed biologists' understanding of the evolution of the Eukaryotes, organisms with nuclei in their cells. Read more on Wikipedia →

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