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MayBe Art is SYMBIOTIC

Sheila Goloborotko
Threads III
monotype
20.5″ x 13.75″
www.goloborotko.com

Lynn Margulis
Prokaryote Cell
www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/margulis/

Lynn Margulis proposed that the ancestors of eukaryote cells ( in image) were symbiotic consortiums of prokaryote cells with one or more species (endosymbionts) being involved. These cells with nuclei, including all the cells in the human body, descended from bacteria that formed symbiotic relationships more than 2 billion years ago. As they became more interdependent an obligatory symbiosis evolved. She contended that symbiosis, not chance mutation, was the driving force behind evolution and that the cooperation between organisms and the environment are the chief agents of natural selection — not competition among individuals.

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