"Cheating yeast help group"

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:08 PM -0400 9/15/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 9/15/2010 02:52 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>"New results show that yeast populations grow better when a few
>>individuals cheat the system"
>
>1)  Do "yeast" form its plural like "moose"?

Evidently

>
>2)  This sounds like an article Natalie Angier of the NYTimes might
>write.  (See her on bogarting monkeys.)

As in "Monkey see, monkey do, monkey bogart"?  Or as in "Don't bogart
that monkey"?

>
>3)   As mechanisms that help the species survive we have deception in
>addition to altruism.
>
>4)   And to the species using deception, previously including
>primates, we must add yeasts.  (I have two tales of chimpanzees
>exercising deceit, but one is not fit for delicate ears.)
>
i.e. blushing ears?  (of which there are obviously many on the list)

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