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Scientists now have their hands on the genome of the starlet anemone, Nematostella vectensis . This genome is important because it, in conjunction with other sequenced metazoan genomes, gives us a better picture of the last common ancestor of all animals. And as might be expected by now, the plausibility of front-loading evolution is enhanced.

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