Mathematical model: The study shows that multicellularity can evolve without direct benefits over unicellular ancestors. In ...

The evolution of multicellularity enabled specialization of cells, but required novel signalling mechanisms for regulating cell differentiation. Early multicellular organisms are mostly extinct and ...

Foreword : the evolution of multicellularity / John Tyler Bonner -- I. Functional and molecular predispositions to multicellularity. Fossils, feeding, and the evolution of complex multicellularity / ...

One of the big evolutionary questions in life is how and why single cell organisms organized themselves to live in a group, thereby forming multicellular life forms. Scientists have answered at least ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single cells and forming multicellular structures. This ability to alternate ...

The researcher Ander Urrutia of the UPV/EHU’s Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology research group and Animal Pathology at CEFAS/OIE, is exploring “the great hidden diversity of unicellular ...

A genomic study of Gonium pectorale (shown here) and closely related algae reveals that co-option of genes for cell cycle regulation helped unicellular organisms evolve toward multicellularity.

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Thursday, April 27, at noon, Future Tense will host an event in Washington called “Do ...

Research has revealed that multicellular physiology in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus--a bacterium that can actively reorganize its community according to the environment in which it is found ...