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Walking from water
Email: David Bruce - david@thescientisteurope.com News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020704-02
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The emergence of the first vertebrates from the seas and onto the land marked a key point in the history of life, but few fossils of the early tetrapods have been found from this period — often referred to as Romer's Gap. In 4 July Nature, Jennifer Clack at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK, describes a near complete fossil amphibian that casts light on the limb development of these tetrapods (Nature 2002, 418:72-76).
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