[Map Kernow]

"To build a multicellular organism compatible with a multicellular lifestyle is something that is very difficult. It takes a lot of genetic machinery to do that, and you have to ask the question, did it all arise when the animals came along, or was some of it in place earlier?...In choanoflagellates, we’ve found genes that previously were believed only to exist in animals. It’s a confirmation of the idea that the genes come first, before their exploitation by organisms."

For me, this is the most interesting quote in the article. The master plan (genes) came first? What of "natural selection"? And was there an "author" of the plan?

[RightWhale]

The discovery suggests that the single-celled creatures represent a vital staging post in evolution and that all animal life on Earth descended from something very like them

No, it doesn't. Logic demands better formulation.

[netman]

Ro 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

...Like dreaming up evolutionary plots.....

[texson66]

I knew it! We're ALL POND SCUM!

[sheltonmac]

The discovery suggests that the single-celled creatures represent a vital staging post in evolution and that all animal life on Earth descended from something very like them.

And these single-celled creatures evolved from......?

[freepy smurf]

I priced some land next to a pond once. That life's too expensive for me.