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The social amoeba D. discoideum is a single-cell organism that, when collected together at sufficiently high density, exhibits emergence in its cellular aggregation (left). A common example of emergent phenomena in nature is the snowflake, where the macroscopic shape is dictated by the molecular geometry of the water molecule (right).
