For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began. Early attempts at team living began to stick, paving the way for the evolution of complex organisms, including animals, plants and fungi. Across all known life, the move to multicellularity happened at least 40 times, suggests one study1. But, …
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