Posted byShige Abe

Sept. 9, 2004
Feature Story
Molecular Biologists Uproot Perspective of Ancient Ancestry
A study funded in part by NASA has uprooted the “Tree of Life” metaphor that describes how all organisms are related.
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A study funded in part by NASA has uprooted the “Tree of Life” metaphor that describes how all organisms are related.