Evolutionary cut and paste

Neil Shubin ()
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Neil Shubin: University of Pennsylvania

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6688, 12-13

Abstract: A newly described 334-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian will give students of vertebrate evolution much to think about, for it has characters that were previously ascribed to three different types of early four-legged creature. Together with other examples, the fossil shows that during evolution new features seem to have been 'cut and pasted' on different groups at different times. Understanding such parallel evolution will require understanding the molecular and developmental basis by which such features arise.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27755

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