Probably the wrong forum for this, but I couldn't help but share it. An article about a scientist using yeast (<i>our</i> yeast!) to study the ways in which multicellularity could have evolved:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...-driven-single-cells-to-evolve-into-colonies/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...-driven-single-cells-to-evolve-into-colonies/