Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years - ‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all ...

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Two lifeforms have merged into one organism for the first time in a billion years. The last time that happened, the world ...

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For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism. The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth ...

They’ve observed primary endosymbiosis–two lifeforms merging into one organism. This incredibly rare event occurred between a type of abundant marine algae and a bacterium was observed in a ...