How humans are descended from sponges
by Jeffrey Graf
With the advent of new molecular biology techniques, including bioinformatics, scientists have new ways to determine relatedness between organisms. Even if two organisms have no readily apparent comparable features at the macro level, scientists can analyze DNA sequences and protein family function to look for proteins and sequences that are widely conserved throughout the animal kingdom.
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