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Exciting Evo-Devo Research on Fins and Hands

August 21, 2016

Carl Zimmer, at The New York Times, reports on recent research at the University of Chicago. Scientists trying to understand the evolutionary origins of tetrapods have discovered some fascinating similarities in the developmental processes that lead to fins (in fish) and digits (in tetrapods). 

And here's the original paper, published in Nature.

 

← March of the TrilobitesWoolly mammoths persisted on St. Paul Island until quite recently, around 5,600 years ago. →

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