Is this how simple life got complicated?

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A new study has created an analog of what researchers think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells — in an environment that requires them to work for their food — grow and reproduce better in multicellular clumps than singly.

B Herr

Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity – – – New Scientist – RichardDawkins.net

Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity – – – New Scientist – RichardDawkins.net.

Amazing ,amazing, amazing.