Racism at the lowest levels!
According to a LiveScience.com article by Jeanna Bryner, researchers at at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have found that a species of amoeba called Dictyostelium discoideum behaves in a manner that is deemed “racist” when humans, especially white ones, act similarly. The Dictyostelium discoideum, single celled organisms, identify one another when stressed by rival species, and engage in complex division of labor to form a common defense. As our http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5699 friends say, something should be done about this naked discrimination against integrationist cells:
Amoebas go to their kin when http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5280!
It’s a beautiful thing – single-cell organisms practising Kinism. Call them “cellists”.
My gosh, there are a bajillion gazillion of those things. The hate crime trials will probably take up most of next year.
Look for the parameciums to demand integration when they see that amoebas have figured out how to weather hard times by living among their kin. The amoebas need to learn about diversity, don’t you know!Here’s an idea – take food away from the amoebas that worked for it and give it to the parameciums. We’ll call it “Cellfare”!
http://www.kinism.net/index.php/weblog/more/racist_microorganisms/