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Re:Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of ... by PikelEmi on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:10AM (#13070057)
But when then if you cut of an arm - do the body then regenerate a new arm and the cut off arm a new body ?
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Re:Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of ... by chei0iaV on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:47PM (#13074544)
Unless the arm managed to quickly generate enough organs to crawl around an feed itself, it would suffocate/starve before it could generate a body.
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