Life began on earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for only a fraction of this timescale. Chordates (a group that includes vertebrates) and ...
Despite much investigation, the origin of the phylum Chordata, which contains all vertebrates including ourselves, remains unclear. The central nervous system (CNS) could hold the answers. So solving ...
What can the genome of a jawless worm-like marine animal tell us about vertebrate evolution? The publication in Nature of the amphioxus genome provides information on the genome duplications that have ...