Platypus Genome Reveals Secrets of Mammal Evolution
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 23:28
in Biology & Nature
The genome of the platypus—our most distant mammal relative—has been decoded, revealing traces of mammals' evolutionary break from reptiles hundreds of millions of years ago.
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