Most images are clickable! [h1]The colonial theory[/h1] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#The_colonial_theory][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/8b73e80a79f205d2dfee8e871f1213b053223c9e.png[/img][/url] There is a hypothesis that multicellular life formed from flagellates aggregating. [h1]Dictyostelium discoideum[/h1] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyostelium_discoideum][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/855f8b4978fbd6650162a40b2c3c451d77d8ca86.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337987143_Evolution_of_multicellularity_in_Dictyostelia][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/fefe1bfab18aeffd282583c5cea661cb4734c56d.png[/img][/url] A weird amoeba which behaves like an multicellular slug, multicellular fungi, or a single celled amoeba, depending on the phase of its life cycle. Answers the question: how to make a fungi from 4 types of cells? [h1]Volvocine green algae[/h1] [url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081641][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/4932cb292ba81254f34870e8b8cac75b7bf112a9.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/articles/a_00220.html][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/320ccd367e5b010aebf967a68556bba9e6d382c9.png[/img][/url] Evolutionary time machine model lineage for studying multicellularity, a beautiful representation of possible multicellular plant origins. [h1]Trichoplax[/h1] [url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263356818_Novel_Cell_Types_Neurosecretory_Cells_and_Body_Plan_of_the_Early-Diverging_Metazoan_Trichoplax_adhaerens][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/7bdcc317fdaf9a038819b16e9d6583eb25f1b621.png[/img][/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/7b48e929e052627e53f51b5822ef1d6569003997.png[/img][/url] A simple multicellular animal with no symmetry, made out of only six types of cells. Come on now, only six? This is doable! [h1]Biofilms[/h1] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42900916/362b072be101e25c5249bc60e59a86528125ccd6.png[/img] Bacteria can get together to throw a party, multiply then spread even more!