Experiments explain why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special difficulty for the theory of evolution. Most of the cells in its body will die without reproducing, and only a privileged few will pass their genes to the next generation.

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