Snowball Earth and the Rise of Multicellularity
June 27, 2024
June 27, 2024
SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 27 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release on June 26, 2024:
For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth -- a geologic era when glaciers may have stretched as far as the Equator -- a new creature burst into existence: the multicellular organism.
Why did multicellularity arise? Solving that mystery may help pinpoint life on other planets and exp . . .
For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth -- a geologic era when glaciers may have stretched as far as the Equator -- a new creature burst into existence: the multicellular organism.
Why did multicellularity arise? Solving that mystery may help pinpoint life on other planets and exp . . .