NEW INDIVIDUAL THINKING. “Similarly, neither can the multi-cellular eukaryotes notion of an “individual” be applied straightforwardly to prokaryotes. Efforts to squeeze prokaryotes into these multi-cellular eukaryotes notions will produce results that are either metaphorical or misleading or wrong.”
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