Wits boffin finds clues to origins of life in algae

26 April 2016 - 02:43

By Katharine Child

Billions of years ago a switch was flipped, allowing single cells to evolve into multicellular organisms - from which life would emerge.For decades scientists have tried to understand how and why this happened.Now a Wits researcher and fellow scientists in Tokyo and the US have added to the understanding of this transformation.

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