Yeast Shows Physics Can Give Rise to Multicellular Life Sans Mutations

Yeast shows physics can give rise to multicellular life sans mutations

Discover how snowflake yeast defies expectations, growing exponentially due to physical processes, challenging traditional views on evolution.

Unexpected Fluid Physics Around Snowflake Yeast Offers Clues to the Evolution of Multicellular Organisms

Dennis C J Bengaluru 21 Jun 2025 Consuming ‘food’, in the form of prey or nutrients from the soil or even sunlight,  and converting it into energy, is one of the foundations of life. Once an organism got the food, the next big challenge for the evolution of complex life was distributing it to all its parts. For single-celled organisms, this isn't much of a problem as they're small enough that nutrients can easily diffuse, or spread out, to every…