July 17, 2024

Adaptation to the harsh conditions of a geologic period of global glaciation may have sparked the development of multicellular life. (image: Michael Schiffer/Unsplash)

William Crockett (UNM Physics and Biology 2022), a Ph.D. student at MIT was a corresponding author on a recent paper entitled "Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (June 26, 2024). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2767

Professor Mousumi Roy was Will's honors thesis advisor. Will was also a 2022 Santa Fe Institute Undergraduate Complexity Researcher.

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/snowball-earth-and-the-rise-of-multicellularity

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