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Contributed by Neil H. Shubin, December 3, 2013 (sent for review November 12, 2013)
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- Published in issue January 21, 2014.
- Published first January 13, 2014.
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- aDepartment of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
- bAcademy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103; and
- cDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Contributed by Neil H. Shubin, December 3, 2013 (sent for review November 12, 2013)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nshubin{at}uchicago.edu.
↵2Deceased November 11, 2012.
This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2011.
Author contributions: N.H.S., E.B.D., and F.A.J. designed research; N.H.S., E.B.D., and F.A.J. performed research; N.H.S., E.B.D., and F.A.J. analyzed data; and N.H.S. and E.B.D. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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