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Interesting Article on Metamerism and Evolution
Topic Started: Jan 10 2011, 12:33 PM (440 Views)
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Here it is: http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/paper.php?doi=072425jc

I was especially interested in how the author proposes an evolutionary mechanism for the development of metamerism and segmentation. (Note that "metamerism" only means "repeated organs".)

If any of you get bogged down in the academic language, let me know and I'll post definitions and/or a non-technical summary.
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