#multicellularity

[virovac]

Scientists Have Witnessed in Real-Time a Single-Celled Algae Evolve Into a Multicellular Organism

Most of us know that at some point in our evolutionary history around 600 million years ago, single-celled organisms evolved into more complex multicellular life.

Hm, are we sure this isn’t reverting to an ancestral state using previously dormant genes rather than doing this from scratch>

[lenrosen]

Whether life started on the early Earth or came to it from space, at some point, single-celled creatures evolved into multicellular species.

How Did Life Begin And When And How Did It Go Multicellular?

From stromatolites bacterial mats to the first complex multicellular life spans over 2.5 billion years of Earth history.

[bytetrending]

Five single-celled species that dabble in multicellularity

Nature, Published online: 27 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02707-3 Animals’ closest cousins provide insight into how we became multicellular creatures. For millennia, scientists have pondered the origins of multicellularity – the remarkable transition from single cells to complex organisms like ourselves. While studying animal evolution has been crucial, a new perspective is emerging:…

Five single-celled species that dabble in multicellularity

[gwydionmisha]

A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity

[dictyocha]

Marshlocks

I now have a blog! It´s about molecular biology and biology in general.

http://myrhatt.wordpress.com

[amoscaeojarro-blog]

"Bacteria have a role in the formation of colonies by a species of single-celled organisms whose ancestors gave rise to the animals, which suggests that bacteria might also have influenced the origin of multicellularity in animals."

-A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

[alegadolab]