| Meeting Details | ||
| Speaker: | Dr Nick Lane | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University College, London | |
| Date: | 11/03/2014 | |
| Time: | 20:00 | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | All complex (eukaryotic) life on Earth shares a common ancestor that arose just once in 4 billion years of evolution, apparently as a chimera, in which a bacterial host cell engulfed another bacterium, the ancestor of mitochondria. I will discuss the singularity of eukaryotic origins, and why mitochondria enabled the evolution of enormous genomic complexity, while simultaneously forcing the evolution of many curious eukaryotic traits, from the programmed cell death to two sexes. | |
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