Carol Otte • Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/author/carol-2/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:41:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Amoebic Morality https://www.damninteresting.com/amoebic-morality/ https://www.damninteresting.com/amoebic-morality/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:57:37 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=901 Amoebic Morality:

Once food had been plentiful, but no longer. In the early days of the colony, the amoebas had feasted on a rich supply of bacteria. But as the generations passed and the population swelled, they had hunted out their food supply. Now starvation threatens. Their home– a scrap of deer dung which once provided all […]

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