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Nature 435, 1022-1023 (23 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351022a; Published online 22 June 2005
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It was cold and clammy, but it changed the rules of life for ever. Helen Pilcher goes in search of the ancestor of all animals.
Some geneticists have all the luck. While most are slavishly chained to the bench pipetting liquid, Werner Müller from the University of Mainz, Germany, gets to ponder the origins of life as he dives for sponges in the Adriatic Sea.
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