Platypus evolution

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The duckbilled platypus, a venomous mammal from Australia that lays eggs, has recently had it's genome sequenced. It makes for interesting reading about duplicated genes and how they are involved in evolution.

The original article is, I think, in Nature. For those of you without a subscription the link above is to the science blog Pharyngula, which has an indepth report on the implications of this research. Another article from News in Nature is here:
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Neat critter. Neat analysis of it's evolutionary history.

 

[PipFunatUT]

wonder what ID would say about this...

 

[justobservering]

This kind of talk will only lead to Nazism and holocaust.

Gene duplications are probably the most interesting thing coming out of genetics and evolutionary biology right now.

 

[Huckleberry]

Is there an article detailing the evolution of the extraneous apostrophe?

 

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[gecko]

The duckbilled patypus is venemous...? huh.

 

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[bozo_casanova]

I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

-Ogden Nash

 

[Super]

Only hyper-cultured geeks quote Ogden Nash, dude. You have sooo jettisoned your working-class street cred with that one.