How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why

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One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into what drove the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. S04E01 Will Ratcliff at Georgia Tech has been conducting long-term evolution experiments on yeast in which multicellularity develops and emerges spontaneously. Ratcliff's lab: https://biosciences.gatech.edu/people/will-ratcliff “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. - Listen to more episodes of Joy of Why: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/ ----------- Chapters: 00:00 - Steve and Janna: Welcome to Season Four 04:15 - Many Ways to Go Multicellular

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