Patrick Lewin (@plewin.bsky.social)

1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.

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The fitness costs of reproductive specialization scale inversely with organismal size https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2536055123

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