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University of Alabama: First Animal Not What Scientists Have Long Thought
June 18, 2019
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, June 18 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Alabama issued the following news:

The last common ancestor of all animal life was more like modern stem cells and not a clump of similar cells, as has long been thought.

The finding, published in Nature, will likely mean rewriting textbooks and encyclopedias as it changes the idea that the common ancestor of all animals about 800 million years ago was a simple ball of cells.

Instead, th . . .

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