Over the years her activities have spanned from original contributions to cell biology and microbial evolution to developing science teaching materials and hands-on garbage and trash projects in elementary schools. Extremely interested in Archean and Proterozoic evolution, her research now focuses on the Serial Endosymbiotic Theory of the origin of cells, study of life cycles and sediment impact of the inhabitants of microbial mats, and theoretical aspects of James E. Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis. Margulis believes that, like mitochondrias and chloroplasts, the case for spirochete ancestry will be proved. It's as if you documented the changing surface of the Earth at urban sites using Landsat images, without knowing anything about the people. Think of the nerve as coming from what had formerly been a bacterium, trying but unable to rotate and swim.
Thought involves motility and communication, the connection between remnant spirochetes.
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. The title of his contribution to the Cajal Conference is The Conscious Cell.