Scientists Solve Major Piece in the Origin of Biological Complexity

[orogenicman]

Scientists solve major piece in the origin of biological complexity

From the article:

"Until now, biologists have assumed that this single-cell bottleneck evolved well after multicellularity, as a mechanism to reduce conflicts of interest among the cells making up the organism," says Ratcliff. "Instead, we found that it arose at the same time as multicellularity. This has big implications for how multicellular complexity might arise in nature, because it shows that this key trait, which opens the door to evolving greater multicellular complexity, can evolve rapidly."

 

[Steven_R]

Science? Bah! I have all the answers I need in my book of Bronze Age Mythology crafted by goat herders.