Animal evolution: Revolution averted

Animal evolution: Revolution averted Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2015 - Who came first - sponges or comb jellies? A new study by an team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum - and restores the classical view of early animal evolution, which recent molecular analyses had challenged. The answer to the question of whether the sponges or the comb jellies (also known as sea gooseberries) represent th ... more

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