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Evolutionary uniformitarianism.
Developmental biology - 1 Sept 2011
Erwin Douglas H
Abstract excerpt
I present a new compilation of the distribution of the temporal distribution of new morphologies of marine invertebrates associated with the Ediacaran-Cambrian (578-510 Ma) diversification of Metazoa. Combining this data with previous work on the hierarchical structure of gene regulatory networks, I argue that the distribution of morphologies may be, in part, a record of the time-asymmetric generation of...
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