In recent years, Lynn Margulis has been credited in various articles as the person who introduced the concept of holobiont into biology in the early 1990s. Today, the origin of evolutionary studies on holobionts is closely linked to her name. However, Margulis was not the first person to use this concept in its current context. That honor goes to the German theoretical biologist Adolf Meyer-Abich, who introduced the holobiont concept nearly 50 years before her (in 1943). Although nearly completely forgotten today, in the 1940-60s he developed a comprehensive theory of evolutionary change through "holobiosis." It had a surprisingly modern outlook, as it not only addressed tenets of today's evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), like the origin of form and production of variation, but also anticipated key elements of Margulis' later endosymbiotic theory. As the holobiont concept has become an important guiding concept for organizing research, labeling conferences, and publishing articles on host-microbiota collectives and hologenomes, the field should become aware of the independent origin of this concept in the context of holistic biology of the 1940s.

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Margulis之前的holobiont概念。

近年来，林恩·马古利斯（Lynn Margulis）在多篇文章中都被认为是在1990年代初将“全氟哌啶酮”概念引入生物学的人。今天，有关全生命周期进化论研究的起源与她的名字紧密相关。但是，Margulis并不是第一个在当前上下文中使用此概念的人。这项荣誉归功于德国理论生物学家阿道夫·迈耶·阿比希（Adolf Meyer-Abich），他在提出霍洛波涅特概念前将近50年（1943年）。尽管今天几乎完全被遗忘，但在1940至60年代，他通过“整体生物学”发展了一种全面的进化变化理论。它具有令人惊讶的现代视野，因为它不仅解决了当今进化发展生物学（evo-devo）的宗旨，例如形式的起源和变异的产生，但也预见了Margulis后来的共生共生理论的关键要素。由于全息概念已成为组织研究，标记会议和发表有关宿主微生物群和完整基因组的文章的重要指导概念，因此该领域应在1940年代整体生物学的背景下意识到这一概念的独立起源。