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> Not sure what to make of this. The article is interesting, but it seems like a lot is being assumed, something are being said that aren&apos;t, and some things aren&apos;t being said that are.-"When cheats were embraced we discovered something surprising," Dr Rose says. "[b]Evolution saw a new kind of entity[/b]&#151;a group comprised of two different cell states: cheating and cooperating cells. Evolution couldn&apos;t focus on just one state or the other; for lineages to persist, evolution had to see both types&#151;[i]it had to work on a [b]developmental [color=#f00]programme[/color][/b].[/i]"-"Little is known", explains Professor Rainey, "but life cycles involving at least two different states are almost universal in the world of multicellular organisms. I suspect that this is because multiphase life cycles generate an organismal configuration that [b]delivers to natural selection a machine-like entity with which it can really work.[/b]-One interesting there is, that is slightly off-topic, is the personification of Evolution being used here, as well as the contradictory assumptions. I also find the mention of links to Cancer interesting, because that would mean that this effect is overall deleterious to the organisms over time.