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Animal genomes follow irreversible 'evolutionary highways' across thousands of species

Animal genomes follow irreversible 'evolutionary highways' across thousands of speciesWorldPing

A human, an octopus, and a coral could hardly look more different—yet deep inside their cells, their chromosomes still carry recognizable pieces of a genome inherited from an animal ancestor that lived more than 600 million years ago.

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