by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
There are two great moments in the history of life that should always inform the science fiction of human space travel and settlement. One is when life made the huge leap from prokaryotic cells, which are mostly simple and very tiny, to eukaryotic cells, which are very large and complex. In a number of the books by late biologist Lynn Margulis, the differences between these types cells are repeatedly emphasized. The distance from one to the other was, for her, mo
There are two great moments in the history of life that should always inform the science fiction of human space travel and settlement. One is when life made the huge leap from prokaryotic cells, which are mostly simple and very tiny, to eukaryotic cells, which are very large and complex. In a number of the books by late biologist Lynn Margulis, the differences between these types cells are repeatedly emphasized. The distance from one to the other was, for her, mo