We are not so special.

Elife

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, United States.

Published: July 2018

New sequence data from choanoflagellates improves our understanding of the genetic changes that occurred along the branch of the evolutionary tree that gave rise to animals.

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