Mutation for multicellular life was a backbone changer

A random mutation can spark a huge jump in the evolutionary course of a protein important for the evolution of animals, new research shows. Following the discovery that a random mutation 600 million years ago in a single-celled organism created a new family of proteins that are important for multicellular life, researchers now describe what the mutation did to the original protein family.

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