Several years ago, we realized that the most prominent ideas that had been ex pressed about the origin and early evolution of the Metazoa seemed to have been de
Recently, new genes and their proteins that revealed striking new insights into the early evolution of multicellular animals have been identified and characteri
The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of a
The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of contro