That's a big deal: "De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation" by Herron et al. 2022 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8
"We subjected outcrossed populations of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to selection by the filter-feeding predator Paramecium tetraurelia. Two of five experimental populations evolved multicellular structures not observed in unselected control populations within ~750 asexual generations"
@albertcardona @mads100tist @mhendricks I mean I'm not going to click on a nature paper link but that tracks, getting bigger to both eat and not get eat seems right.
@jonny @mads100tist @mhendricks Here is the link to the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/247361v2
@albertcardona @mads100tist @mhendricks dang this is cool
@albertcardona @jonny @mhendricks A little push is all we need sometimes