THE AMAZING PLACENTA: EVOLUTION AND LIFELINE TO HUMANNESS.

The placenta arose during mammalian evolution, which is recent in evolutionary terms. Genetic changes underlying placental development remain identifiable by the new science of comparative genomics (approximately post‐2000). Randomly arising features of genomes including endogenous retroviruses and...

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Published in:	Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 306 - 327
Main Author:	Finlay, Graeme
Format:	Article
Published:	Open Library of Humanities Jun2020
Subjects:	Placenta Endogenous retroviruses Neural development Biological evolution Biology Comparative genomics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost