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Searching for sponge origins

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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 2, Issue 11, Pages 1685-1686

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0702-4

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Sponges are believed by many researchers to be the earliest living animal group, but there is conflicting evidence for the timing of their origin. A molecular fossil discovery supports the contention that sponges appeared very early, but starkly contradicts the body fossil record.

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