Building a multicellular organism.

@article{Kaiser2001BuildingAM,
  title={Building a multicellular organism.},
  author={Dale Kaiser},
  journal={Annual review of genetics},
  year={2001},
  volume={35},
  pages={
          103-23
        }
}
  • D. Kaiser
  • Published 2001
  • Biology
  • Annual review of genetics
Multicellular organisms appear to have arisen from unicells numerous times. Multicellular cyanobacteria arose early in the history of life on Earth. Multicellular forms have since arisen independently in each of the kingdoms and several times in some phyla. If the step from unicellular to multicellular life was taken early and frequently, the selective advantage of multicellularity may be large. By comparing the properties of a multicellular organism with those of its putative unicellular… 
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