Bristol study resolves dispute about the origin of animals

New research led by the University of Bristol has resolved evolutionary biology ’ s most-heated debate, revealing it is the morphologically simple sponges, rather than the anatomically complex comb jellies, which represent the oldest lineage of living animals.
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