Re: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

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Michael Olea wrote:

... rerun the tape and something like 9
times out of ten you get bacteria and nothing else.

Are you sure? Games Theory shows that in many situations individuals
can gain a significant advantage if they can follow a cooperative
strategy. Thus, environments which exert a strong pressure on
unicellular organisms to organize in cooperating colonies (the
ancestors of multicellular organisms) are probably not unlikely.

This seems to be a reasonable viewpoint, but perhaps it is included
in Michael's assertion "9 out of 10". And in fact, tens of hundreds
of millions of years were necessary to evolve from unicellular
to multicellular organisms. It is a damn improbable thing.

*PB*


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