Also: endosymbiotic theory, Lynn Margulis, Lynn Sagan, mitochondria, chloroplasts
The endosymbiotic theory, championed by Lynn Margulis (publishing as Lynn Sagan in 1967), holds that mitochondria and chloroplasts began as free-living bacteria taken in by ancestral cells.
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Sagan (later Margulis) proposed that complex cells arose through symbiosis, with photosynthetic plastids acquired by some early protozoans to form algae and green plants.
As reported in: Sagan (1967). On the origin of mitosing cells. Journal of Theoretical Biology. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(67)90079-3
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