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Thomas Day

@thomas_day_

Forever a student. Always seeking to learn more about the world.
Los Angeles, CA Joined February 2021
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Thomas Day @thomas_day_
Wow, this is a pretty incredible find! Looking forward to hearing more about if the interpretations of these discoveries holds up as more work is done.

newscientist.com/article/237682…
www.newscientist.com Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead | New Scientist New discoveries suggest that Homo naledi, an ancient and primitive hominin, may have displayed complex behaviour despite its small brain
Thomas Day @thomas_day_
A journey of a lot of collaboration, hard work and microscope time has just been published in Nature!
Congrats to these folks, I am incredibly lucky to be a part of this project. @wc_ratcliff @ozan_g_b @YunkerLab @dahaj1897 and others I missed.

Article:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
www.nature.com De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity Nature - After 600 rounds of selection, anaerobic snowflake yeast evolved to be macroscopic, becoming around 20,000 times larger (approximately mm scale) and about 10,000-fold more biophysically...