Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation

These original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of the prevailing neo-Darwinian concept of evolution in the light of growing evidence that hereditary symbiosis supplemented by the gradual accumulation of heritable mutation results in the origin of new species and morphological novelty.A departure from mainstream biology the idea of symbiosisas in the genetic and metabolic interactions of the bacterial communities that became the earliest eukar...See More