I wonder if it makes sense to think of organs as symbiotic organisms with shared genome and partially separate epigenetics?
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Replying to @Plinz
It's more usual to make the analogy the other way round, especially in the case of eusocial insects: the queen is the colony's ovaries and the workers are the soma.
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I also usually see this the other way around: the fact that most cells cannot procreate has the same reason that workers cannot cooperate. The queen bee bottleneck of the gonads enforces evolutionary pressure for altruistic cooperation.
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*cooperate = procreate
10:31 AM - 26 Jun 2019
from New Orleans, LA
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