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What if we all started out as one celled microbes?

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Do you believe we started out as one celled microbes?

What do you think could have caused the split of these microbes to become different species?

What do you think could or would be the cause of our (DNA) to not be exactly the same?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    "we"?

    We were born humans. Life began as single cells, much simpler than those of today.

    Evolution = mutation + natural selection.

    Here, these sites should provide great starting points:

    http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/index....

    http://www.talkorigins.org/

    With ~Hope~ Of Sanity.

  • xaxorm
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Probably, a few cells started to live together in a colony, sharing food and gaining more resilience from physical obstacles. Microbes live like that now in colonies. They CAN live alone, but they do better in groups. Later, various cells take on specialized roles, depending on their location in the colony. That is called multicellularity, the classic early multi-celled organisms is the worm. We see the remnants of this evolution throughout the living world: Organisms that succesfully made it as partially complex colonial and multi-cellular organisms, and stopped evolving. Other individual cells of course became more and more complex, leading to the animal and plant and fungi kingdoms. Also, some cells, protozoa, developed more complexity, just within a single cell, growing "feet", "eyes", etc.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would answer this but amazingly, the amount of time I would have to use to construct a comprehensive answers is the exact same time you could use to get some real knowledge about evolution.

  • Leo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    As soon as the population was sufficiently large it could have mutated in different ways, eventually creating distinct populations.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    change in environment.

    It is an part of evolution that we don't all have the same DNA so we can tell each other apart.

    I don't know I'm not a biologist

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hell, some of these folks STILL have "one-celled microbes"...

    For brains!

    Source(s): 殺生丸殿
  • 1 decade ago

    We would still be one celled microbes. God created Adam as a whole man.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All depends on how God created.

    It seems to me, from what I know, that God's preferred method is to influence the elements to do his will as opposed to 'hokus pokus'.

    Source(s): Fellow believer
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes.We all started out as a zygote.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    OMG like no way! We started out as monkeys. EVERYONE knows that.

    Source(s): I love the Jonas Brothers they are hot, hot , hot!!
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