Once more a big thank you to all suggesters, likers, followers, contributors and just good old visitors who are continuing to push this blog up to numbers we had never dreamed of ascending to when we started in 2020 (doesn’t that seem a long ago?)
A curious note: yesterday (LSS 10 6 2026) we published a wry observation suggesting that humans and AI might fuse into a new life form in much the same way as certain Archaea and bacteria did so to form the first Eukaryotes about 1.68 billion years ago (although some still maintain it happened on the Friday before that) Anyway, our grasp of the evolutionary microbiology part of the blog was not too shaky; although things may have been a bit more complicated than we implied. But this excellent explainer [1] from the learned Ana Lozano Del Campo of El País will put everything to rights (Anglosphere: you will need your translator at this point)
If you want to know more about Archaea, this excellent Podcast from Misha Glenny and In Our Time will reveal even more about this fascinating branch of life. [2]
[2] BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Archaea
#evolution #eukaryotes #bacteria #mitochondria #pre Cambrian #genes #dna
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