Re:De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation
by gus_massa on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:40PM
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The hard part is (probably) the transition from Prokaryotes to Eukaryotes. The transition from unicelular Eukaryotes to multicelular Eukaryotes is (probably) easy [1] .
> Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 46 times in eukaryotes, and also in some prokaryotes, [...] . However, complex multicellular organisms evolved only in six eukaryotic groups [...]
Edit: [1] From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#Occurre...
> Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 46 times in eukaryotes, and also in some prokaryotes, [...] . However, complex multicellular organisms evolved only in six eukaryotic groups [...]