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A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
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Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.
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