A brief synopsis of eukaryotic life from my book, showing where complex life fits into our timeline:<p><a href="https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=12" rel="nofollow">https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=12</a>
> The eukaryotes invented organization, if we use the literal definition of “organize”: to be furnished with organs<p>I write about organisations, and I had never considered that! I wonder if that fits with the historical bias towards functional organisation. (And functionalism in sociology, but I undestand that to be discredited now)
The first cell with a surviving lineage to get organised. There could have been countless other 'attempts' that, for one reason or another, failed to get established, or died out before they could leave a trace in the fossil record.
"At some point, in a sequel to mitochondrial capture, a eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacterium capable of photosynthesis... green organelles called chloroplasts, evolved into plants and other photosynthesizers."<p>Chloroplasts are only one type of plastid; this process occurred far more than once.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid</a>
So did multi-celled life evolve several times independently among the original eukaryotes if some gained chloroplasts or mitochondria <i>before</i> being multi-cellular?
Yesterday an article was trending "The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects". Now I wonder, how much does static electricity actually affect cells?
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-of-insects/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-o...</a>