How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? | Podcast: The Joy of Why
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. S04E01Will 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
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Chapters:
00:00 - Steve and Janna: Welcome to Season Four
04:15 - Many Ways to Go Multicellular
11:00 - Why Go Multicellular?
14:13 - Directed Evolution
19:53 - Mutation Innovation
25:22 - Steve and Janna: What Doesn't Kill You
26:43 - Cellular Altruism
33:48 - Playing Out in Nature
36:33 - The MuLTEE-verse
42:24 - Steve and Janna: Driven by Curiosity
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