A scientific giant has passed. Yes, she became a bit quacky in her later years, but her ideas changed how we think about he evolution of eukaryotic life on earth. Her theory indirectly promulgated one of my main research areas.
RIP Lynn, you crazy, magnificent wonder.
Aww, sadness.
Attended a speech of hers at the University of Florida when I was an undergrad there.
snif Sadness, indeed.
Well, maybe her organelles are going on to live new lives in other organisms…
Absolutely. I remember her name coming up in the very first college biology course I ever took. Like Linus Pauling she championed some idiosyncratic notions in her later years, but also like Pauling her contributions are nothing to be sniffed.
RIP.