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Biological evolution- why is the starting point such a big deal?

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01-09-2002 8:19 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by nator
01-09-2002 5:07 PM

In support of Schrafinator, there are bacterial species that exhibit colonial behaviour. That is, under certain conditions, they form specialist cells within a colony. To the point where there are reproductive cells. Now this is asexual reproduction, so there are no gametes. But the ONLY reason they are not a separate multicellular species is that individual cells can still exist outside of the colonies.
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