Animal embryos in deep time

被引:23
作者
Bengtson, S [1 ]
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[1] Swedish Museum Nat Hist, Dept Palaeozool, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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10.1038/35245
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Discoveries of spectacularly preserved embryos and tissues, in rocks that are about 570 million years old, open a new era in the study of early animal evolution.
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