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To: LibWhacker
By hogging resources and hindering neighbors, a cell can increase the odds that more of its own genes get passed into the next generation.

As though at one time in the distant past a single cell made a decision about what it wanted for the future after it was gone, offspring. This is really absurd. They put complex thinking and planning into a single cell as though it had a big brain to figure out it's goals and then to design itself to carry them out. I am fed up with the ridiculousness of putting personality and complex thoughts and abilities to carry them out into one cell creatures. The only way a single cell would compete to live and propagate would be if someone who designed it, who did think, put those properties into it.

21 posted on 01/18/2012 12:48:34 AM PST by Bellflower
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To: Bellflower
As though at one time in the distant past a single cell made a decision about what it wanted for the future after it was gone, offspring. This is really absurd.

I agree. The author of the article, Sarah Fecht, is still a college student. Social cooperation among individuals of a species can be beneficial to the survival of the species which is what evolution is really about. She's making a common mistake by assuming that survival solely rewards the selfish.

26 posted on 01/18/2012 6:17:38 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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