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Article: 530 Million-year-old Zoon Important in Study of Evolution
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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A zoon that lived 530 million years ago in southwest China's
present day Yunnan province has been described as a missing link in
the evolution of earth's living matter.
The cell-like zoon has been identified as the oldest
hemi-chordata.
A type of living organism between chordata, the origin of
vertebrae, and those without chordates, the Yunnan Zoon makes up a
missing link in evolution, according to a group of Chinese
paleontologist in Xi'an.
Professor Shu Degan, a paleontologist in the Department of Geology
in Northwestern University, and his colleagues have published a
thesis on their discovery in the respected Britain-based "Nature"
magazine.
Their find is a break from the point of view ...