Never Ending Analysis of a Century Old Evolutionary Debate: “Unringing” the Urmetazoon Bell
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1 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 2 ITZ Ecology & Evolution, TiHo Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 3 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 5 Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 6 Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, USA, 7 Division of Paleontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, 8 Bavarian State Collections for Palaeontology and Geology, München, Germany, 9 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 10 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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