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by stevesimmons 615 days ago
And presumably the size of cells is partly determined by constraining enough of the right things close enough together, so they will bump into each other quickly enough with probability approaching 1.
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Right! Cells larger than that stop working reliably and end up self-selecting themselves out of the future generations.

Now I wonder if internal structure of cells can be attributed to that too - i.e. organelles create zones where processes relying on fast random walk can work, enabling the cell itself to grow bigger.