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The funny thing about this paper is years ago I got an ancient Yersinia genomes paper to review and was very negative that the analysis was limited and conclusions overblown as was all mapping to a reference and was missing huge amounts of info. Feel vindicated.

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It's so funny that MapQuest was all but counted out on the mat after taking a beating from Google Maps and Apple Maps but they navigated (lol) this current fuckshit political climate like a fucking boss. Kudos to whomever decided they should position themselves as WokeMaps

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3/ They evolved unicellular green algae at Snowball Earth viscosities. Populations evolved motile multicellular forms, alongside other phenotypes that hit different combinations of size and speed.

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1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

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