RichardKennaway comments on The Octopus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 September 2014 07:38:04AM 3 points [-]

I bet there are people out there who do this for a living.

There's this Ph.D. thesis and video all about multicellular coordination in slime moulds. This is an organism which switches between unicellular and multicellular habits, with cell specialisation, and competition among cells to be among those that make spores and get their genes into the next generation.