Internalized Evolutionary Inertia on Body Plan Evolution.

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Despite the phenotypic diversity of animal species, the basic anatomical features, or body plan, of each animal phylum have been strictly conserved since their initial establishment in the early Cambrian. While this remarkable conservation could be explained by the conservation of the mid-embryonic phase (the developmental hourglass model) when the body plan is established, the underlying evolutionary mechanisms...

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