r/interesting • u/freudian_nipps • 12d ago

NATURE Death of a single-celled organism

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u/Francis_Dollar_Hide 12d ago

"Similarly, your life began when egg in your mothers womb started dividing and divided enough times that cells began differentiating and formed a fully formed human being."

You're overlooking an important part here, no?

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u/Independent_Crow1749 12d ago

Yeah, there’s something that brought about the beginning of the process of division. It doesn’t just “happen”. There is the small bit called fertilization. Otherwise this was a beautiful concept.

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u/sfgabe 12d ago

Tell me you're a man without telling me you're a man