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Multicellular Life Evolves In Months, In a Lab
ananyo writes "The origin of multicellular life, one of the most important developments in Earth's history, could have occurred with surprising speed, U.S. researchers have shown. In the lab, a single-celled yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) took less than 60 days to evolve into many-celled clusters that behaved as individuals. The clusters even developed a primitive division of labor, with some cells dying so that others could grow and reproduce. Multicellular life has evolved independently at least 25 times, but these transitions are so ancient that they have been hard to study. The researchers wanted to see if they could evolve multicellularity in a single-celled organism, using gravity as the selective pressure. In a tube of liquid, clusters of yeast cells settle at the bottom more quickly than single cells. By culturing only the cells that sank, they selected for those that stick together. After many rounds of selection over 60 days, the yeast had evolved into 'snowflakes' comprising dozens of cells."
Holy crap, your post history is almost entirely +5 karma whoring. I've never seen so many pandering, populist +5 comments.
I had no idea who GreatBunzinni was until your crapflood.
I see no evidence in your posts of GreatBunzinni using multiple accounts to shill. I see a possible AC post. I see someone questioning bonch.
You on the other hand are a spammy bastard who is haunting Slashdot and amassing a GNAA-worthy number of FPs. One has to wonder whether you are paid for your attentiveness.
I recognise some of the names on GreatBunzinni's list and thought they sounded a little 'shill'. Now this. It adds weight to my suspicions.
If you are one of the aggrieved, respond to posts where they out you. Logged in. Maybe the GreatBunzini has included some names they shouldn't have. Until then, _your_ crusade has just confirmed the GreatBunzini's accusations, as far as I am concerned. Well done.
With apologies for the offtopicness of this post.