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One-celled life possessed tools for going multicellular

Amoeba uses some of same molecular machinery as more complex organisms

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MOLECULAR TOOLKIT  Capsaspora owczarzaki, a unicellular organism closely related to animals, uses molecular tools shared by multicellular organisms to move through its different life stages.

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By Laurel Hamers

- More than 2 years ago

Scaling up from one cell to many may have been a small step rather than a giant leap for early life on Earth.