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I don't know what the boundaries of eusociality are, but some cellular slime molds and bacteria exhibit a social behavior where they differentiate function base
by djmips 5y ago
I don't know what the boundaries of eusociality are, but some cellular slime molds and bacteria exhibit a social behavior where they differentiate function based on position in a colony but can also live on their own.
- carapace 5y agoThere's also the trichoplax, a kind of "tribe" of cells that is "made up of a few thousand cells of six types in three distinct layers: dorsal epithelia cells and ventral epithelia cells, each with a single cilium ("monociliate"), ventral gland cells, syncytial fiber cells, lipophils, and crystal cells (each containing a birefringent crystal, arrayed around the rim)." They can be pressed through a sieve so that the cells split apart and move as individuals. The cells will reform the organism. Two trichoplax organisms can be split like this and the cells from each will reform with each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax
- pvaldes 5y ago> I don't know what the boundaries of eusociality are Even my chicken would fit in that description.