Multicellular

Guts: Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, however these became specialized in multicellular organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, but specialized in multicellular organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The more precursors we find, and the more specific they seem to be — so that their functions in multicellular organisms would not be easily replaced by other components — the more difficult it is to accept a non-teleological origin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

IOW, if a gene vital in multicellular life forms is present and highly conserved in single-cell life forms (in which it isn't expressed or perform any other vital function), we could conclude that the gene was front-loaded into the genome by a designer of the original genome with the expectation that multicellular life forms would evolve when that gene does get expressed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For example, this is true for developmental biology and for analysis of the functions of signalling pathways in multicellular organisms. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Since such a creature as the rabbit is formed through the co-operation of a vast multitude of cells, it is called multicellular; the amoeba, on the other hand, is unicellular. ❋ Unknown (1906)

I think that a similar thing to #2 has already happened, only with a particular kind of multicellular animal that we on earth call "spiders". ❋ Unknown (2009)

If we discovered a more advanced life-form, such as some kind of multicellular organism, that would eliminate a much larger set of evolutionary transitions from consideration as the Great Filter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was actually talking about the algae mentioned in your blog, not the first multicellular creature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ergo, if we are interested in finding multicellular life on other planets, we should skip those that are entirely covered with water (and those that are entirely dry land as well). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Metamerism (i.e. segmentation, with multiple, almost identical body segments) is the main "theme" in the evolution of the bauplans of most large multicellular organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do you think the algae that you mentioned in your blog went multicellular as a result of a "random developmental accident"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

As I mentioned in my previous post, the massive diversification of multicellular life on Earth coincided with the formation of the continents and the invasion of the land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, almost as soon as multicellularity arose, it "exploded", producing the fantastic diversity of multicellular animals, plants, and fungi that we see today and in the fossil record of the Phanerozoic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the monophylic clade of metazoa contains only multicellular liveforms, this also defines the mentioned outgroups of taxa from protozoa and prokaryota. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No existing observations support such a claim, and given the massive global dominance of unicellular species over multicellular eukaryotes, both in terms of species richness and numbers of individuals, if there is an advantage of organismal complexity, one can only marvel at the inability of natural selection to promote it. ❋ Unknown (2009)