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  • Every multi-celled organism begins as a single cell, a fertilized egg.

    Crossroads 2009

  • Well, I got an answer for all of you: It is all of our faults; humans are naturally a flawed multi-celled organism mammal.

    Aide: Obama believes tax on costly policies 'has some merit' 2009

  • In that kind of protective environment, he thinks multi-celled organisms could thrive ...

    Beckoned by the Icy Moons... and CoS 91 Nicole 2009

  • In the next chapter, we will introduce and describe a new field of biology that shows, through the biology of genes, how an individual passes from a single-celled egg to a multi-celled adult and how a fish journeys through evolutionary time to eventually arrive as a human.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • How do the scientists know these "single-celled organisms" didn't evolve from a much older and long extinct multi-celled organism?

    An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism 2008

  • How do the scientists know these "single-celled organisms" didn't evolve from a much older and long extinct multi-celled organism?

    An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism 2008

  • I thought your hypothesis was that certain structures found in single celled eukaryotes were designed to facilitate the evolution of multi-celled organisms, not that the genes for people were front-loaded into single-celled eukaryotes.

    A Message About ID 2007

  • Dimasok: My problem with God is that it seems to be terribly wasteful to have forced billions years of evolution from single-celled to multi-celled organisms and all that infinite space around us also seems to be too hostile and too wasteful if we are to play any part in his creation.

    Combinatorial Dependencies 2007

  • My problem with God is that it seems to be terribly wasteful to have forced billions years of evolution from single-celled to multi-celled organisms and all that infinite space around us

    Combinatorial Dependencies 2007

  • In the wake of our two wars they are now even more dispersed, a multi-celled organization stretching from Waziristan to Somalia to Europe that depends on no command center.

    Daniel Denvir: Why the Afghan War was a Mistake -- And Why that Matters 2009

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