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Re:De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation by cmrdporcupine on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:54PM (#19251647)
Unicellular in the form of bacterium may in fact not be that much of a jump. It may even have happened twice in the form of archaea and bacterium.

The jump from prokaryotic to eukaryotic is far more intimidating.

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Re:De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation by andrewflnr on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:24PM (#19251761)
That's actually happened a bunch of times, too. I'm just going to link to a comment I made a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18456049

"Diatom-derived plastids" blew my mind.

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