{"id":88109,"date":"2019-02-23T06:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism"},"modified":"2019-02-23T06:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T14:42:35","slug":"scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Witnessed in Real-Time a Single-Celled Algae Evolve Into a Multicellular Organism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H737KNly2l4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of us know that at some point in our evolutionary history around <a href=\"https:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/news\/how-did-multicellular-life-evolve\/\">600 million years ago<\/a>, single-celled organisms <a href=\"https:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/news\/how-did-multicellular-life-evolve\/\">evolved into more complex<\/a> multicellular life.<\/p>\n<p>But knowing that happened and actually seeing it happen in real-time in front of you is an entirely different matter altogether.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly what researchers from the George Institute of Technology and University of Montana have witnessed \u2014 and captured in the breathtaking, time-lapse footage below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-witnessed-in-re...r-organism<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know that at some point in our evolutionary history around 600 million years ago, single-celled organisms evolved into more complex multicellular life. But knowing that happened and actually seeing it happen in real-time in front of you is an entirely different matter altogether. And that\u2019s exactly what researchers from the George Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}