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October 18, 2016

A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2016
The first animals evolved from their single-celled ancestors around 800 million years ago, but new evidence suggests that this leap to multi-celled organisms in the tree of life may not have been quite as dramatic as scientists once assumed. In a Developmental Cell paper publishing October 13, researchers demonstrate that the single-celled ancestor of animals likely already had some of the mechanisms that animal cells use today to develop into different tissue types. "We're looking into the past a ... read more

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