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by hwillis 487 days ago
Aha! But you have neglected steps as well, fetid ignoramus!

You portray such a +++ animal as simple and obvious, but indeed in fact you would need (++++++):

1) adherins and cadherins to bind this sheet together 2) an organelle to produce and regulate the cellular proteins 3) a method to encode those proteins 4) a method to replicate and propagate that encoding so that new proteins can be encoded 5) start and stop codons and a method of duplication or recombination errors to allow for new copies of protein encodings to be created separately from old copies...