How Life Made the Leap From Single Cells to Multicellular Animals

For billions of years, single-celled creatures had the planet to themselves, floating through the oceans in solitary bliss. Some microorganisms attempted multicellular arrangements, forming small sheets or filaments of cells. But these ventures hit dead ends. The single cell ruled the earth. Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of […]

















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