> boddhisatva: "Look, the woman biologist who proposed that mitochondria and
> chloroplasts developed from an endosymbiotic relationship was mocked
> openly by her male colleagues in a very sexist way."
>
> I remember reading something about her, and would like to know more. Do you
> remember her name?
Would she be Lynn Margulis?
> Doesn't her work have some critical bearing on the Darwinist notion of
> random mutation?
Not sure about this.
> Quincy
>
--prashanth