Pond Scum Reveals Animal / Plant Divergence
October 29th, 2007. By Dave. 445 views.
Geneticists at Stanford have dug their noses in pond scum, specifically, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to shed insight into when this little organism spit from the animal kingdom. Turns out it was 1.6 billion years back. Plus or minus.
Source: Stanford
