Evolution has had the luxury of tinkering around for billions of years before hitting on an exceptional solution that
made multicellular life on earth possible.
Not exact matches
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Multicellular life almost didn't
make it out of the Paleozoic era, but every functional group did.
After noting that some viruses can be crystallized,
making them hard to categorize, he decides to concentrate on «comparatively highly - organised
life», presumably
multicellular life.
«This finding
makes a deep connection between the physics of inert granular matter such as sand and the geometry of
multicellular living systems,» said lead author Lior Atia, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at Harvard Chan School.
It developed a chance mutation that
made its progeny stick together, eventually giving rise to the first
multicellular life.
All eukaryotic cells — the kind that
make up all
multicellular life — owe their existence to the two creatures that underwent this fateful merger.
Later, cell - cell adhesion
made possible the evolution of
multicellular life forms.
Indeed, the incorporation of carbohydrates into cell membranes and extracellular matrix is what
made possible the rise of
multicellular life.
The stability of earth's climate over at least the last half billion years (history of
multicellular life) is remarkable and
makes it clear that there are negative feedbacks operating on a wide range of timescales.