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December 01, 2008

Amoeba got kin!

Even more exciting than the "Clams got legs" cry from the cartoon B.C., is this finding, that amoebas favor genetically similar creatures and can even form multicellular clusters.

No, it's not conscious "kin" in the first instance, nor is it multicellular "organisms" in the second, but it is all new behavior.

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