Lynn Chiu the Philbio-er · @drlynnchiu
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Wow, what???

De novo origins of in response to predation

"Predation is hypothesized as one selective pressure that may have driven the evolution of multicellularity...Two of five experimental populations of [the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas] evolved multicellular structures."
nature.com/articles/s41598-019

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