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Surprised the article doesn't mention Viral Eukaryogenesis, the hypothesis that the nucleus of Eukaryotes evolved from a virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis

My understanding is that there is much less evidence for this, but it seems like the question of whether or not there were multiple gradual endosymbiotic events in eukaryotic evolution would definitely depend in some way on viruses.




For some reason people fixate on the mitochondrion in the context of the origin of eukaryotes, to the near total exclusion of the nucleus that actually defines the eukaryotes. I don't understand why this is. I can only cynically guess that it's a form of streetlight fallacy: we have a pretty good idea where mitochondria came from, so let's focus on that (and conveniently forget about the nucleus, golgi body, endoplasmic reticulum, ...).




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