Folks reading about the efforts to breed a better bee may be interested.

 

>>>>>Her legacy is profound. (Deceased) Lynn Margulis, a College of Arts &
Sciences professor of biology, was known for her theory of symbiogenesis, in
which a "long-term symbiosis can lead to new organs, new tissues, new
behaviors," she explained in a 2006 interview with Astrobiology
<http://astrobio.net/interview/2100/microbial-planet>  magazine.
"Symbiogenesis is an evolutionary relationship. It's symbiosis over time,
such that a new feature can be recognized as a product of that
symbiosis."<<<<<

 

Dick Marron


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