complex organism

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What is true for a simple organism like the honey bee is even more true for complex organisms like humans.
Studies on invertebrates have clearly shown that elements of motivational states and/or emotional responses are features of almost all complex organisms.
However, for complex organisms, and most especially for creative, open-ended perceivers and actors such as human beings, specification may not be relevant.
Complex organisms, especially human beings, are not like that.
Since humans are much more complex organisms than plants, these differences must be explained at other levels than the genome.
So the existence of complex organisms provides evidence for theism.
It is quite likely, then, that the perceptual saliency of symmetry is not a derived feature of human perception, but is one we share with many complex organisms.
Adaptation in populations of complex organisms, such as humans, depends on population genetic processes, information-acquiring ontogenetic processes, and cultural processes, all of which can generate niche construction.
Furthermore, when students are asked to reason about life in extreme environments, they most often cite complex organisms (such as plants, animals and humans) rather than the more ubiquitous microorganisms.
Hibernation is not a cryptobiotic state, because metabolism is maintained through the process but, owing to its importance to more complex organisms in particular, it will be discussed here.
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