James Townsend
Articles by James Townsend:
Root Canal: Reassessment of the Animal Tree of Life and Its Implications
in Issue 59 | Taxonomy (Dec 2015)the question boils down to which group of animals branched off from the rest first - what is even possible during evolution - stinging cells on their tentacles - the amorphous, gelatinous portion of ctenophores - sponges first - most ctenophores are incredibly fragile - nerves and muscles and symmetry