If that's true, modern choanoflagellates give us a glimpse of how multicellular animals began.

如果真的是这样，那么，现代领鞭虫就给了我们一个窥探多细胞生物如何形成的机会。

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Lateral gene transfer from one organism to another is rare, especially in multicellular animals, he said, but could be part of some evolutionary process for the sturgeon.

基因从一种有机体横向转移到另一有机体的现象是少见的，尤其是在多细胞生物之间更是如此，他说，但这也可能是湖鲟生物进化进程的一个组成部分。

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In its wake, the first multicellular animals arose.

在其之后，第一个多细胞动物出现。

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What genetic change allowed multicellular animals to come into existence remains obscure.

ECONOMIST: How to become multicellular

Much of the difference between the single-celled fungus and the two multicellular animals is accounted for by those genes and proteins that make multicellularity possible.

ECONOMIST: Genomics

Nicholas Strausfeld, the study's author, highlights that no one was expecting to find a brain as advanced as this so early in the history of multicellular animals.

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