As ‘Science’s Unruly Earth Mother,’ Lynn Margulis Championed a New Theory of Life’s Origins
In the scientific community, Lynn Margulis is known as a rebel – and she’s as synonymous with the theory of symbiosis as Charles Darwin is with evolution. Her serial endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell development, the idea that early cells combined to become more complex, completely revolutionized the conception of how life began on earth…