Is the "Big Bang" in Animal Evolution Real?
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- 23 December 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 310 (5756) , 1910-1911
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1122440
Abstract
The debate on the origin of animals remains topical. In their Perspective, Jermiin et al. discuss the study by Rokas et al. in the same issue, which concludes that the ancestors of living animal phyla arose in two rapid episodes of diversification. Their study goes some way to reconcile the conflicting fossil and molecular data, but Jermiin et al. argue that the debate should perhaps continue.Keywords
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