I wasn’t proposing the merger of multiple prokaryotes as a candidate for Great Filter, I was proposing the transition from prokaryote to eukaryote as a candidate for Great Filter.
Fair enough. I was reaching too far in assuming endosymbiotic events were the limiting factor in that transition.
I wasn’t proposing the merger of multiple prokaryotes as a candidate for Great Filter, I was proposing the transition from prokaryote to eukaryote as a candidate for Great Filter.
Fair enough. I was reaching too far in assuming endosymbiotic events were the limiting factor in that transition.