multicellularity

By studying our closest single-celled relatives, scientists find that proteins important for stem cell pluripotency existed before the evolutionary jump to multicellularity.

by Piyush Nandafigures by Corena Loeb Around 600 million years ago, single-celled life transitioned to multicellular life forms, begetting a paradigm shift in the definition of life on earth. This was an event so remarkable in earth’s timeline that it…