Cyanobacteria played an important role in the evolution of Early Earth and the biosphere.
They are responsible for the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans since the Great …

How animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor, transitioning from a unicellular lifestyle
to a coordinated multicellular entity, remains a fascinating question. Key events in this …

Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of
hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically …

Complex multicellularity represents the most advanced level of biological organization and it
has evolved only a few times: in metazoans, green plants, brown and red algae and fungi …

Oxygen concentration defines the chemical structure of Earth's ecosystems while it also fuels
the metabolism of aerobic organisms. As different aerobes have different oxygen …

Kim Sterelny and Daniel McShea for helpful comments and suggestions on earlier papers
on the topic that I also included within the present work. Kristian Köchy for a series of …

While early multicellular lineages necessarily started out as relatively simple groups of cells,
little is known about how they became Darwinian entities capable of sustained multicellular …

The evolution of multicellularity has been one of the major transitions in the history of life. In
contrast to animals and plants, how multicellularity evolved in fungi and how it compares to …

Abstract The Mesoproterozoic Era (1,600–1,000 million years ago, Ma) geochemical record
is sparse, but, nevertheless, critical in untangling relationships between the evolution of …

Scholars have discerned core dynamics common to both biological and cultural evolution.
Here these dynamics are called “evolutionary dynamics” and are conceptualized as three …