apos mate

She got canned!

Perhaps we can get one of those named after you.

Seriously, nobody wants a beak job. Nobody.

apo, the tubeworm story is linked to the Morgellons story - life is all about the struggle not to be food for, or to take advantage of opportunities provied by, other organisms. After all all eukaryotes contin one or more remants of prokaryotes with their own genomes, such as mitochondria and chlotoplsts. Lynn Margulis (Sagan`s wife) is the leading light on this, and Carl Zimmer writes really well on it:

http://loom.corante.com/archives/2006/01/02/in_praise_of_flukes.php

http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0036,wertheim,17900,10.html

Chlotoplsts?

Type in haste, regret at leisure.

Chloroplasts. Here's a good article from Nature on the phenomenon, which Margulis termed "endosymbiosis": http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0601/0601_feature.html.

Science writer Carl Zimmer discusses this in his book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074320011X/ref=ase_downandoutint-20/002-2215307-1392045?n=283155&tagActionCode=downandoutint-20) and on his blog, This article on toxoplasma, which apparently infects the brains of half of mankind, is rather interesting: http://loom.corante.com/archives/2006/01/17/the_return_of_the_puppet_masters.php.