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Great-Granddaddy the Worm

Apr 20, 2007

An article in the Economist details the theory that a small worm-like creature was a common ancestor to both the insect-mollusk-worm lineage as well as the vertebrate lineage. Scientists have used protein interaction data to trace the evolutionary biology, according to the article.

 

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