The paper that explained why every living thing on Earth exists was rejected by 15 journals before anyone took it seriously — and the idea it contained is stranger than most science fiction

In 1966, a young biologist named Lynn Margulis submitted a paper to a scientific journal. It was rejected. She submitted it to another. Rejected again. She worked through a list of journals — the most prestigious, the most relevant, the most likely — and over the course of several years, she collected fifteen rejections. The […]