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When Hewitt started wrapping up his musings near the end I got one of those moments of clarity. I love the fairy wasps, just an ingenious technique they employ
by undersuit 10y ago
When Hewitt started wrapping up his musings near the end I got one of those moments of clarity.
I love the fairy wasps, just an ingenious technique they employ to be so small. I wrote a paper about them and xenophyophores in my 200-level Biology class. Fairy wasps discard many of their cellular machinery to maintain their small size, xenophyophores have massive redundancy of organelles and nuclei to service their absolutely massive size for a single celled organism. I am fascinated by these techniques and I made comparisons to techniques we perform in Computer Science like compiling, parallel processing, and forking.
Now I discover from this article's sources that we mammals possess organelle movement that brings us closer to Multinucleate fungi. The description of the use of mitochondria by white blood cells was also fascinating.
Still only understand like 20% of this article, but I'm damn interested.