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Ediacaran dinner party featured plenty to eat, adequate sanitation, computer model shows
Jul. 18, 2019—Earth’s first dinner party wasn’t impressive, just a bunch of soft-bodied Ediacaran organisms sunk into sediment on the ocean floor, sharing in scraps of organic matter suspended in the water around them. But work from Evolution@Vanderbilt paleontologist Simon A.F. Darroch, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, and Brandt M. Gibson, a...
Life in evolution’s fast lane
May. 24, 2019—Most living things have a suite of genes dedicated to repairing their DNA, limiting the rate at which their genomes change through time. But recent work by graduate student Jacob L. Steenwyk in the lab of Antonis Rokas, Evolution@Vanderbilt director, and their collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports the discovery of an ancient lineage...