With a team of scientists from the UK and Canada, we traced the evolution of purple algae back hundreds of millions of years and our findings challenge a key idea about how evolution works.

Herron, M. D. & Michod, R. E. Evolution of complexity in the volvocine algae: Transitions in individuality through Darwin's eye. Evolution 62, 436–451 (2008). King, N. The unicellular ancestry ...

An international team of scientists (including experts from Harvard University) have described a carbon dioxide-hungry algae ...

in which the coral provides shelter in return for nutrients from the algae. New research, published in the journal Nature, shows this partnership is so old that it predates the evolution of modern ...

Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including animals, plants, fungi, and algae. This evolutionary leap of going from one to many requires organisms to ...