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Published online 4 February 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990204-4
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Pushing back the origins of animals
If a recent analysis of animal evolution is correct, then the famed “Cambrian explosion” in the evolution of multicellular animals was not so much a Big Bang as simply the end of a long, slow, crawl.
In the most recent issue of The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Daniel Wang and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University in the USA have looked at the molecular evidence for the timing of animal evolution.
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