#Evolution, #Darwin, #Mystery
The paper this video is based on can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas…

The zygote is a single cell with half its DNA from the mother, and half from the father. Why is it that we gamble everything on a single cell each time we reproduce?

Here we dive deep into this question, learning why the single-cell bottleneck is so important in the evolution of multicellular animals, the function of genetic clonality, and we examine what is still a mysterious case of a population of animals that reproduce through fission instead of use using a single-cell bottleneck.