An endosymbiotic relationship is basically a relationship in which one organism lives inside another organism and both benefit from it.
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The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology.
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The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.
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