Moebius and Gates were convinced that the single cell possesses “memory” for having once encountered anything dangerous, it knows enough to avoid it when presented under similar circumstances. And having once found food in a certain place, it will afterwards make a business of looking for it in the same place.
And, finally, Verwoern and Binet had found in a single living cell manifestations of “the emotions of surprise and fear” and the rudiments of “an ability to adapt means to an end”.
Let us now consider pluricellular organisms and consider them particularly from the standpoint of organic evolution. The pluricellular organism is nothing more nor less than a later development, a confederated association of unicellular organisms. Mark the development of such an association.
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