> but can't a single big cell also escape a filter predator that's also a single big cell
Maybe if it's big enough, but there's a huge cost to being big and the cot is harder to bear for more herbivorous cells. For most organisms the better survival strategy is probably to be more numerous and accept a certain level of attrition, hence ants outnumbering humans.
Maybe if it's big enough, but there's a huge cost to being big and the cot is harder to bear for more herbivorous cells. For most organisms the better survival strategy is probably to be more numerous and accept a certain level of attrition, hence ants outnumbering humans.