Scientists have reversed evolution, reconstructing an ancestral gene and demonstrating how the ancestral gene directed facial muscle development in mice.
Evolutionary Backtracking
Researchers stitch two mouse genes together to recreate a gene that existed more than 500 million years ago.
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