How did multicellular life evolve? Algae, yeast and protists like slime moulds give some hints

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New Scientist lately reported on one thing I’d by no means heard of earlier than: Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled organism that’s as much as 2 millimetres in size. It’s a protist – a single-celled organism that may be a eukaryote, which implies it has a posh inner construction and is extra associated to animals, crops and fungi …