It's the Song, Not the Singer--Speculation on Holobiont Evolution

[gbrooks9 (George Brooks)]

@Randy

Interestingly, similarly, re introduction of native animals in East Africa also improved the bacterial and grass vigor better than simply using domestic animals.

This is one of my all time favorite threads!:

Protists that fed on algae cells swallowed some that would not be digested and did not die… and they were lucky they did! Those algae cells helped the Protists survive starvation - - and provide an exquisite parallel to the acquisition of proto-mitochondria by one celled life ages ago…

Link to YouTube video:

One-Celled Life Swallows Algae ... Model for how we have Mitochondria!

I think this is a pretty important finding … buried within one of the hundreds of YouTube videos on Evolution ! Protists that fed on algae cells swallowed some that would not be digested and did not die… and they were lucky they did! Those algae cells helped the Protists survive starvation - - and provide an exquisite parallel to the acquisition of proto-mitochondria by one celled life ages ago… [image] Link to YouTube video: