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Brittle Star

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Feb 17, 2008 1:20 PMMay 21, 2019 5:30 PM
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"This is another Haeckel- a brittle star. I am a physical chemist, but I've always admired Haeckel's obsessive use of visual and design analogy to bolster his (useful, but not entirely correct) ideas about evolution. " -Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, PhD student, University of Washington.

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