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Published online 1 August 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000803-5
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Looks like the back end of a barnacle
Genomics reveals that there is more to the barnacle than meets the eye, Henry Gee reports.
When Charles Darwin returned home from his five-year trip aboard HMS Beagle, fired up with news about evolution, did he hold a press conference? No. He embarked on an immense survey of all the living and extinct varieties of barnacles.
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