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Philosophy
fromAeon
2 days ago

For 3 billion years, life was unicellular. Why did it start to collaborate? | Aeon Videos

Unicellular microbes with limited multicellular behaviours provide clues to how cells cooperated and specialized to form animals.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer

Multicellularity evolved many times across life but arose only once in animals, with unicellular relatives already possessing key multicellularity molecular components.
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