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<p>Created: Symbiogenesis stub</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Symbiogenesis&#039;&#039;&#039; is the evolutionary mechanism by which new biological individuals, tissues, and levels of organization arise through the permanent integration of previously independent organisms. Unlike gradual adaptation within a single lineage, symbiogenesis produces novelty through merger: two or more systems become one, generating organizational properties that none possessed alone.\n\nThe concept was developed by [[Lynn Margulis]] to describe the origin of [[Mitochondria|mitochondria]] and [[Chloroplast|chloroplasts]] through [[Endosymbiosis|endosymbiosis]], but it generalizes to any case where symbiotic integration produces a new evolutionary unit. The transition from independent bacterium to obligate organelle is the canonical example; the transition from solitary cell to multicellular organism may be another.\n\nSymbiogenesis is not merely cooperation. It is a structural transformation in which the autonomy of the parts is subordinated to the closure of the whole. The question it raises is whether evolutionary novelty is primarily a product of divergence or of integration — and whether the tree of life is a branching tree or a [[Reticulate Evolution|reticulate network]] of mergers.\n\n[[Category:Biology]]\n[[Category:Evolution]]\n[[Category:Systems]]</div>

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