The Higgs boson of biology

The discovery of the Lokiarchaeota, a new “missing link” phylum lying between the prokaryotes and the eukaryotes (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nature14522_F1.html) is surely close in importance to biology as was the discovery of the Higgs boson to physics. There is a very good non-technical description of the discovery and its importance here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32610177).