It developed a chance mutation that made its progeny stick together, eventually giving rise to
the first multicellular life.
Not exact matches
Sponges were the
first multicellular animals to evolve, so the finding means all complex
life has a skin.
But suddenly,
multicellular life ballooned, knocking over the
first domino in an evolutionary cascade that would one day allow you — yes, you — to exist and think and even read stuff on the Internet.
And while the work hasn't produced a true
multicellular organism, the snowflake yeast has shown just how easy it can be for
life to take the
first step toward a major biological transformation.
All of these mechanisms were repurposed to suit the
multicellular lives of the
first animals.