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I like to think of early life as being more like an undifferentiated slime mold Goldenfeld said. Such a communal form of life would have no meaningful family tree
Slime moulds prosper on the microfarm: Nature Newsa slime mould long thought to hunt bacteria as prey turns out to have unexpected abilities:
according to researchers in Texas, some of the amoebae are actually farmers, husbanding their bacterial'crops'much as some ant species farm fungus.
As social amoebae, slime moulds are bizarre creatures that live as individual singled-celled organisms while feeding,
It was thought previously that slime moulds were strictly predators of bacteria, forming the multicellular slug when scant food supplies prompted a move to new hunting grounds.
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