Talk:Evolution of multicellularity

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[edit] this article is almost pure gibberish!

first off, multicellularity occurs in MANY distinct clades: green plants, metazoans, fungi, brown algae, a few other algae groups, cellular slime molds a bit, volvocales (spp?) and others.

so first of all you gotta distinguish which group you are talking about. Almost surely different groups came to multicellularity in different ways.

the section about multicelularity from multispecies symbiosis is very odd, not sure what it means.

I'm sure something interesting can be said about this topic, but this article aint it. for starters see: John Tyler Bonner: On Development.Wikiskimmer 05:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Well first off, if you read the article it says that the same mechanism is very likely to occur for all the different clades that evolved seperateley. so to answer your first question I'm talking about all multicellular organisms as they are very likely to have evolved in the same way, not via different ways as you say, so you're wrong there. the article says these are the three most popular theories and only one is commonly accepted as the other two have fundamental flaws. if you have reliable evidence to the contrary, add it, if not, leave it. to your second point, multicellularity from multispecies symbiosis is a well known hypothesis and not hard to imagine when you consider how reliant certain species are on each other (rhizobia in plants) and an example is given how this could of occurred, however its still not understood how different genomes can be integrated into one as, even with known endosymbionts, parts of the respective genomes are still kept separate many millennia later. On a side note, seeing as you added this to the discussion, then proceeded to add zero to the article itself shows you have less than zilch knowledge of anything in this topic, so seems like your username's accurate and your post was pointless, Laters.

p.s. ...3rd sentence...almost surely pure gibberish?...!...(check out oxymoron)