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How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish
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Nature 627, 15-16 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00610-x
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References
Xia, B. et al. Nature 626, 1042–1048 (2024).
Xia, B. et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.14.460388 (2021).