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Pastimes : EVOLUTION

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From: LLCF8/12/2011 2:42:49 PM
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Survival of the fittest or survival by co-operation? Or both?

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A team of researchers, led by Harvard professor Andrew Murray, found that cells of brewer's yeast that clumped together were able more effectively to manipulate and absorb sugars in their environment than were similar cells that lived singly. The experiments showed that in environments where the yeast's sugar food source is dilute and the number of cells is small, the ability to clump together allowed cells that otherwise would have remained hungry and static to grow and divide.

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