• Question: Why do we have organs

    Asked by anon-40704 to Jill, Ingmar, Cristina on 14 Nov 2022.
    • Photo: Ingmar Schoen

      Ingmar Schoen answered on 14 Nov 2022:


      To play music at church… Not funny? Sorry, I couldn’t help it.
      To answer your question more seriously: I think no one knows why biology has come up with a way to divide up work among different cells, but it is evolutionary a relatively old concept. Once a collection of cells start working together on a specific task, they tend to specialise even more over time and develop new functions. So having organs allows an organisms to become more complex and ‘fitter’ because some of these capabilities might be an advantage over less evolved organisms.

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