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Veterinarian Finds Evolutionary Link Between Humans and Bacteria

We higher forms of life have always distinguished ourselves from our single-celled microscopic friends. After all, we have a brain and a more interesting sex life. And we have organelles, tiny structures that are the basic workhorses inside complex cells. Organelles have their own membranes and perform such functions as producing energy or gobbling up foreign invaders. Such luxuries don’t normally go to a single cell.

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