Never apologize for pedantry.
Sophistry is the true sin.
Precision and accuracy in intellectual matters is a laudable goal. For my own part, I respect academic rigor, I do not see it, as has lately become fashionable in our country, as treasonous, seditious, conceited and effeminate.
My whole point is that I am starting to see the rise of multicellular organisms as possibly being an inevitable step in the evolution of life, not just a happy accident in our lonely little corner of the cosmos. The consequences for CETI are profound.