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This week's discussion has

Submitted by cmcgowan on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 12:42pm.
This week's discussion has made me realize how amazing multicellular organisms are.  I had always known that there are many different factors that influence how we live as multicellular organisms, but I never really realized how interdependent all of these factors are. I think it is so amazing that there are so many factors and complex processes that influence our development and yet most of us develop into relatively normal/similar beings.  Yesterday I took a trip down to the Mutter museum ( http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp) in Philadelphia. This museum is dedicated to telling the public about what it means to be human. It does this through the collection of medical anomalies.  As I walked through there I realized that because there are countless factors that make us human, there are also countless ways in which one human can deviate from the "norm." I guess that is a consequence of being such complex organisms....

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