Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 to November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. She proposed that eukaryotes came into being by symbiotic mergers of bacteria, and was the co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with the British chemist James Lovelock.
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Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution... Margulis was the co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with the British chemist James Lovelock.
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Born: March 5, 1938
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Born: March 5, 1938
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Died: November 22, 2011
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Died: November 22, 2011
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Lynn Margulis advanced and substantiated the theory with microbiological evidence in a 1967 paper, On the origin of mitosing cells.
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