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Research shows we’re surprisingly similar to Earth’s first animals – EurekAlert
The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows. According to a UC Riverside…
IMAGE: Recreation of Ediacaran sealife displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.
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The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows.
According to a UC Riverside study, 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures from the Ediacaran period share genes with today’s animals, including humans.
“None of them had heads or skeletons. Many of them probably looked like three-dimensional bathmats…
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