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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