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SUBMITTER: Heim NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5489738 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heim Noel A NA Payne Jonathan L JL Finnegan Seth S Knope Matthew L ML Kowalewski Michał M Lyons S Kathleen SK McShea Daniel W DW Novack-Gottshall Philip M PM Smith Felisa A FA Wang Steve C SC
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170601 1857
Over the past 3.8 billion years, the maximum size of life has increased by approximately 18 orders of magnitude. Much of this increase is associated with two major evolutionary innovations: the evolution of eukaryotes from prokaryotic cells approximately 1.9 billion years ago (Ga), and multicellular life diversifying from unicellular ancestors approximately 0.6 Ga. However, the quantitative relationship between organismal size and structural complexity remains poorly documented. We assessed this ...[more]