Observatory: A Challenge to Dollo’s Law of Irreversibility

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 00:50 in Psychology & Sociology

A study of dust mites, which are free-living, suggest they evolved from parasites that in turn had evolved from free-living organisms, contradicting an axiom that species cannot regain lost characteristics.

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