Unraveling the deep evolutionary roots of animal #multicellularity. Co-PI with Elena Casacuberta @IBE_Barcelona @icreacommun. Join us on our journey! #evolution
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For years, debates about microbial biogeography have sometimes been framed as a choice.
Either microorganisms are everywhere.
Or geography matters.
But what if that is a false choice? @ScienceAdvances
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Perhaps the most important lesson is that even globally distributed microorganisms have histories.
The challenge is learning how to read them.
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Before animals existed, there may already have been cells learning to adhere.
Learning to communicate.
Learning to coordinate collective behaviour.
Learning to function as part of something larger than themselves.
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Perhaps aggregation is not an evolutionary dead end after all!
Perhaps it was one of the evolutionary experiments from which animal multicellularity emerged.
Link: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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