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The Role of Redox Signaling in Mammalian Development

There's some work some years ago now from a guy called Neil Blackstone in Illinois. And he had been working on colonial, I forget what, but basically colonies and a lot there. They're forming effectively a multicellular organism is a colony rather than strictly multicellular,. But the conditions that they're subject to depends on where you are in the colony - whether it's oxygen deprived or not. So just the structure of a blob immediately gives you a difference between the outside and the inside and the likelihood of cells. You need to have a better system of organizing it if you wish to become any more complicated than a blob.

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