Why Are You Multicellular?
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[MUSIC] This episode is sponsored by Audible After our planet cooled from a glob of molten space dust, survived the collision that made the moon, and endured 300 million years of bombardment from space rocks, life showed up about as soon as it could. But for the next 2 billion years, it got stuck. Just single cells, living the single life. Until around one and a half to two billion years ago, when life started sticking together. Some people would say single cells are still the dominant life form on our planet. But if bacteria and archaea have done so great living alone, why and how did some organisms make the jump to living together? [MUSIC] We can count eight major transitions in evolution. From the first replicating molecules all the way to societies an...
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[MUSIC] This episode is sponsored by Audible After our planet cooled from a glob of molten space dust, survived the collision that made the moon, and endured 300 million years of bombardment from space rocks, life showed up about as soon as it could. But for the next 2 billion years, it got stuck. Just single cells, living the single life. Until around one and a half to two billion years ago, when life started sticking together. Some people would say single cells are still the dominant life form on our planet. But if bacteria and archaea have done so great living alone, why and how did some organisms make the jump to living together? [MUSIC] We can count eight major transitions in evolution. From the first replicating molecules all the way to societies an...
