The July 8 story about “trilobite farming” states that “these trilobites would be the earliest creatures known to have forged a partnership with another species.” What about the fact that eukaryotes formed a partnership with other single-celled creatures that became mitochondria or chloroplasts? Now, if you mean that this was the first extracellular partnership, then maybe the trilobite was first.
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