KSP, or Known Science Perplexed, a new Missing Link

[LN400]

Just read a few articles on this new find. Looks like the tree of life may have to be redrawn (yet again). I for one am excited about this. Out with the old, bring on the new, that's science in action.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/science/under-the-sea-a-missing-link-in-the-evolution-of-complex-cells.html?_r=0

and a more scientific take on it

http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14447.epdf?referrer_access_token=uwWlXE4wLU4AAe9rLG94FdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M94F4Fxvk6-RgLp0laGRO8gmUGkk2ZPF7E5BeUUtr8Gt2kKw_bFYYtQQupdUsXO8pvT4xSqVm0i4oyEpieZiO6kxW993frxlRHnEUq4dT-3eyf6DI95aOlYzsiT7HMApgN_fnww7OUw_Yxl94RDKzEzYAoWf90hvEVUcTfGMa00steVauro_npq6I5aPp3pstdkuLCvtncuThEozJwsirr_tMR0PgWy32r9jFsgLgyXA%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.nytimes.com

[Kryten]

This actually agrees with what's been the working hypothesis for a while-and fills in a lot of the holes in it, which is nice. Most people in the field already thought eukaryotes arose from a fusion between a bacterium and an archaeon-and we had a group that was a very good candidate for the bacterium. The main niggling issue was that no known archaeon was capable of engulfing other cells (phagocytosis), making it difficult to imagine how such a fusion could occur. We don't have full confirmation because we only have the genome, but given some of the genes present this looks like archaeon that can undergo phagocytosis.