JERUSALEM, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have identified ancient proteins that may help explain how the first complex cells evolved from simpler ones over 1.5 billion years ago, Israel's Ben-Gurion ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Life Science, an international team of scientists provided a comprehensive overview of ...

A study of tiny algae-like fossils is challenging the idea that multicellular life only emerged 1 billion years ago, pushing ...

How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study ... such as slime molds and at least one ciliate species, possess very few cell types and do not produce tissues or organs that are ...

The discovery could be the “missing link” in the evolution of animals, according to the team ... The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular ...

Without that one-off event, life would still be stuck in its microbial rut. Bacteria and archaea cells just don’t have what it takes to evolve into more complex forms. So what happened?

On one hand, several species exhibit developmental ... which opens up new perspectives on the evolution of cell division mechanisms in eukaryotes. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...