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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Lynn Margulis
Born: March 5, 1938
Died: November 22, 2011 (aged 73)
Bio: Lynn Margulis was an American biologist, university professor, and author who developed a theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and contributed to the endosymbiotic theory. She showed that animals, plants, and fungi originated from Protists. She also contributed to the development of the Gaia hypothesis with James Lovelock.
Known for:
- Symbiotic planet (1962)
- Microcosmos (1986)
- Symbiosis in cell evolution (1981)
- Five Kingdoms (1982)
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