Origins of multicellularity

摘要

Interpreting truly ancient fossils is an especially tricky business. The conclusion that 2.1-billion-year-old structures from Gabon are the remains of large colonial organisms will get palaeobiologists talking.rnIt is a peculiar but widely held view that Charles Darwin used the palaeontological record as one of the principal lines of evidence for biological evolution. He did not. To modern eyes, On the Origin of Species presents a shocking account of the fossil record as an archive of evolutionary history.