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Using the placenta to understand how complex organs evolve

  • Written by Oliver Griffith, Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
imageDeveloping lizard embryo beneath placental tissues.Oliver Griffith, CC BY-ND

Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone – share the same, conserved set of organs. Chickens, fish, human beings – all have hearts, livers, brains, kidneys and so on. Each...

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