Fun thing from bio today:
Slime molds: single cells mass together to form slug. Reproduction happens best when some cells hold up the others. "Sucker" cells become the foot; "selfish" cells crawl up and reproduce. How does cooperation ever continue? Kin preference - the nice, cooperative cells group together and the mean, selfish cells do the same as generations pass. So cooperative cells work together to shove away the selfish jerks. Fascinating.
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If you could make two different groups of selfish cells, maybe you could reproduce the Democratic & Republican parties?
lol. No kidding...criminy.
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