Niall O'Boyle
Dr. Nial O'Boyle, veterinarian and Product Director at CattleEye, holds a PhD in metabolic physiology of the dairy cow (University of Nottingham).
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Sep 1, 2026
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So on the evolutionary side, so one theory or the main theory, I should say, is kind of middle age.
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So two billion years ago, there's ancient cells like archaea and a type of bacteria that fuse together.
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and the bacteria was the mitochondrion or the pre-runner for the mitochondrion.
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And they became what we now know as the eukaryotic cells, so the cells that we're made up of.
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And that really gave, the evolutionary kind of thought is that that gave complex life the ability to happen.
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