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A genetic trigger for the Cambrian explosion unraveled?

Oct 16th 2008

A team of scientists led by young Croatian evolutionary geneticist Tomislav Domazet-Lošo from Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, developed a novel methodological approach in evolutionary studies. Using the method they named 'genomic phylostratigraphy', its authors shed new and unexpected light on some of the long standing macroevolutionary issues, which have been puzzling evolutionary biologists since Darwin.