Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) was an American biologist and a prominent figure in the field of evolutionary biology. She is best known for her contributions to the understanding of symbiosis and the endosymbiotic theory, which proposes that certain organelles in eukaryotic cells, such as mitochondria and chloroplasts, originated as free-living bacteria that were engulfed by ancestral eukaryotic cells.
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