How did the characteristic pattern of embryonic cell divisions during animal development evolve? Analysis of the multicellular development of an organism related to animals now provides some answers.

Scientists in Europe believe they may have finally solved the long-debated question of which came first: the chicken or the ...

These observations suggest that the genetic programs responsible for embryonic development were already present before the emergence of animal life, or that C. perkinsii evolved independently to ...

Scientists have observed a type of cell division in a prehistoric unicellular organism that resembles the embryonic ...

These observations suggest that the genetic programs responsible for embryonic development were already present before the emergence of animal life, or that C. perkinsii evolved independently to ...

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A ...

A cell division resembling that of an animal embryo has been observed in a prehistoric unicellular organism, suggesting that embryonic development might have existed prior to the evolution of animals.

A team led by biochemist Marine Olivetta from the University of Geneva observed that C. perkinsii reproduces in a manner ...

Chromosphaera Perkins, or C. Perkins, is an ancestral species of protist. Diverging from the animal evolutionary line over a ...

Tech giant Elon Musk has successfully expanded several businesses, bolstering his capital and financial prowess to become the ...