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Re:De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation by mrfusion on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:46PM (#19251056)
That makes it way less interesting. The first time multicellular life happened it took billions of years and simple single cell organisms had to figure it out from scratch.
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Re:De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation by rossdavidh on Monday February 25, 2019 @11:07PM (#19251897)
...or, it's not that different from dividing completely into two, and they just didn't do it for a long time because there weren't enough predation-based species to make it worth doing?
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