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Revealing the patterns of macroevolution

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The evolution of amphibians from fish shows that major evolutionary transitions can occur through a step-by-step addition of novel characters over several million years.

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Carroll, R. Revealing the patterns of macroevolution. Nature 381, 19–20 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381019a0

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