Excerpt: Superorganism--How One and One Make Three - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Jun 08
  

  harry palmer

  biology organisms mould cool super-organisms

  • ver  a hundred years ago, Matthius Schleiden, the German botanist, was pondering the  recently discovered fact that beings as simple as water fleas and as complex as  human beings are made up of individual cells. Each of those cells has all the  apparatus necessary to lead a life of its own. It is walled off in its own mini-world  by the surrounding hedge of a membrane, carries its own metabolic power plants,  and seems quite capable of going about its own business, ruggedly declaring its  independence. Yet the individual cells, in pursuing their own goals, cooperate  to create an entity much larger than themselves. Schleiden declared that each  cell has an individual existence, and that the life of an organism comes from  the way in which the cells work together.
• 07 Jun 08
  

  rebootjac

  Over a hundred years ago, Matthius Schleiden, the German botanist, was pondering the recently discovered fact that beings as simple as water fleas and as complex as human beings are made up of individual cells. Each of those cells has all the apparatus...

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• 06 Jun 08
  

  dimitrispan

  evolution science biology

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