Eukaryogenesis: multicellulars "The living world is unambiguously divisible into eukaryotes (cells that contain its DNA in a membrane bounded nucleus), and prokaryotes (cells that lack nuclei). All large and elaborate forms of life are composed of eukaryotic cells, whereas bacteria and their microbial relatives are composed of prokaryotic cells. Life occurred in its bacterial form as a community exchanging genetic information as far back as 3.8 billion years ago. Yet only 1.4 billion years ago did some community of component bacteria merge (eukarya) and remain integrated up to the present. This complex created 'individuality', a very different reality, and we (animal and plant cells) - all eukaryotes - are the consequence of this. Individuality is a derived characteristic, it is not an essential characteristic of life." Lynn Margulis EBR views the emergence of eukaryotic 'individuality' as being entirely psycho-trophic to the global implicate organism (GIO). As GIO systems approached autopoietic potential (parturition) the inherent trophism of the gaian microbiome (planetary placenta) drifts to metabolically reflect an emerging psychologic interest in 'individuality'. To this end, we endeavor to discover the placenta's physiologic and epigenetic role in fetal dreaming and transpose it onto holobiotic feto/maternal markers in late eukaryotic evolution (hominid era). Primal Eukaryogenesis
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