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Macroevolution via secondary endosymbiosis: a Neo-Goldschmidtian view of unicellular hopeful monsters and Darwin's primordial intermediate form.

Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften - 1 Aug 2008

Kutschera U, Niklas K J

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Seventy-five years ago, the geneticist Richard Goldschmidt hypothesized that single mutations affecting development could result in major phenotypic changes in a single generation to produce unique organisms within animal populations that he called "hopeful monsters". Three decades ago, Sarah P. Gibbs proposed that photosynthetic unicellular micro-organisms like euglenoids and dinoflagellates are the products of...

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PMID: 18581157
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-008-0046-8

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