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198 Single Cell to Multi-Cell Transition Myth, The

The shape and func tion of red blood cells are dis tort ed in sic kle cell ane mia. Their abil -
i ty to trans port ox y gen is thus im paired.

er dam age what is al ready there. nar io, prim i tive sin gle-celled or gan -
Grassé goes on to say: isms that came in to ex is tence by

Mutations, in time, oc cur in co her ent - chance were the orig i nal an ces tors of
ly. They are not com ple men ta ry to one all liv ing things. Over the course of
an oth er, nor are they cu mu la tive in time, these or gan isms that formed
suc ces sive gen er a tions to ward a giv en mul ti plied and gave rise to mul ti-
di rec tion. They mod i fy what pre ex ists, celled or gan isms.
but they do so in dis or der, no mat ter According to ev o lu tion ists, this
how . . As soon as some dis or der, even
was the first step in the pas sage from
slight, ap pears in an or ga nized be ing,
one cell to many. Organisms at this
sick ness, then death fol low. There is no
stage of de vel op ment be came gen u -
pos si ble com pro mise be tween the phe -
ine ly mul ti-cel lu lar with the di vi sion
nom e non of life and an archy [dis or -
of la bor among cells in their col o ny.
der]. 225
Cells lost the abil i ty to ex ist in de -
pend ent ly once they gave rise to
mul ti-cel lu lar or gan isms.
SINGLE CELL TO
The sce nar io con tin ues thus: . At
MULTI-CELL TRANSITION
this stage of the ev o lu tion a ry proc -
MYTH, THE
ess, as the need to act in de pend ent ly
According to the ev o lu tion ist sce -

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