The Unbroken Thread
Very cool video. If you get a chance, take a look at the others too! Science popularization at it’s finest!
Very cool video. If you get a chance, take a look at the others too! Science popularization at it’s finest!
This is a continuation of the previous conversation. If it (a cell) doesn’t know anything then why is it "following a specific set of steps"? And this is the misunderstanding, the personification of a cell. The sperm cell itself is the result of a multitude of previous steps undertaken by ancestral precursor cells. It’s not [...]
A sperm cell, so small that it can’t be seen by the human eye knows how to merge with an egg of equal size. It doesn’t know anything. It’s development from a precursor cell has made it into something that is capable of one thing only. There’s no decision making, no "if i do this, [...]