"You've got your gonium, looking like several of those little green algae stuck together. And then there's this active pandorina, also packing together several green cells in its colony body as it moves around. And then we see the Eudoria... and then the pleodorina, which looks increasingly like the orderly sphere of the Volvox. In fact, this combination of footage feels less like a family portrait and more like a series of yearbook photos taken from kindergarten through senior year. Expect instead of the striking passage of time documented through the changes in a child's face, this is the striking passage of multicellular evolution documented through the changes in on algal family."
Journey to the Microcosmos- How Did Multicellularity Evolve?
Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs













