Sentences with phrase «of multicellular creatures»

Whenever you see something interesting, like the evolution of multicellular creatures or human language, cooperation is involved.»

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

Not exact matches

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

I grant, though, that biologists must be fascinated by the evolution of multicellularity, because we are multicellular creatures.

The idea is that as they dug and wiggled, these early multicellular creatures — some were likely worms as long as 40 cm — exposed new layers of seafloor sediment to the ocean's water.

They're more closely related to the multicellular world of people, pandas and portobello mushrooms than to most other one - celled creatures.

There may be some truth to both men's viewpoints: The first animals may well have looked more like a sac of mesomycetozoeans than like any modern multicellular creature.

Marine microbiologist Andreas Teske of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was not surprised that the first multicellular subsurface organism was a nematode; the worms are among the hardiest creatures on the planet.