# Lynn Margulis (@lynn-margulis)

Lynn Margulis was a evolutionary biologist. Margulis championed evidence that mitochondria and chloroplasts descend from once-free-living bacteria incorporated into ancestral cells.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Lynn Margulis's public record._

## Topics

- [Gaia and Symbiosis](/@lynn-margulis/gaia-and-symbiosis.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Endosymbiosis](/@lynn-margulis/endosymbiosis.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [From Rejection to Core Theory](/@lynn-margulis/from-rejection-to-core-theory.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/lynn-margulis-distinguished-university-professor-dies
- blog: https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/margulis-lynn.pdf
- blog: https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/lynn-margulis/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "lynn-margulis", "question": "…"}`.