The Elegance of C. elegans: Classic Design in Miniature

What does it take to build an animal? Here are the job specifications. A single large cell front-loaded with information and enough energy to finish the job must be able to build an organism made of many diverse parts that all function together to solve the problems of getting resources, responding to the environment, disposing of waste, and reproducing itself.

To make it easy, let's say the animal is a worm with about one thousand cells. OK, go.

Can't do it? Neither could I. No one could, b...