🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1detccINNkst@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <6NOV199212364099@csa1.lbl.gov> sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
>>Scott I. Chase			"It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
>>SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV		 although I have no right to say so, having
>>				 been a single cell so long ago myself that I 
>>				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
>>				 life." - Lewis Thomas
>
>Here's where I prove I slept through biology (and that I
>have the balls to take on the ideas of people like Lewis Thomas):
>
>Before the sperm enters the egg, it isn't you, and after
>it enters the egg, it's not a single cell, it's two cells,
>or something entirely different.  Right or wrong?

I'm sure Lewis Thomas wasn't identifying unduly with his dad's sperm.
As far as I can tell, he's referring to the continuity of life and the
fact that you can in theory trace all our cells back to single-celled
ancestors.  Then the "so long ago" makes sense and the "I" is a grand
exaggeration.