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>>4930676
I may have missed a bit of you post
>in hindsight, the advantages of evolution are obvious but what pushed these cells to become ...more ?
The push you talk of is just the survival of a lineage. the evolutionary advantages usually lead to more reproduction, better efficiency, more food, less predators, survival of kin or other members of the species, etc. this all leads to less chance of extinction and the takeover of traits that exploit some sort of niche.
Also keep in mind that evolution isn't a ladder. a sea sponge isn't 'more' than a bacterial cell. It's just different. Bacteria still flourish even though we have a chunk of meatloaf in our skulls that let us do human stuff. Evolution isn't a tree with the topmost leaves the most brilliant. it's a tumbleweed.