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A prominent theme is the surprising conservation of the genes used to construct animal bodyplans, or, as Carroll repeatedly puts it, how very old genes have been taught new tricks.
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One of the currently big mysteries in evolution is the origin of animal bodyplans.
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That's not necessarily a death knell to the hypothesis (for example, it might be that since their bodyplans evolved, those lineages have become developmentally entrenched, so that they're no longer able to change), but at the moment, I think it's fair to say that no one knows how the animal bodyplans evolved.
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"the major bodyplans of animals all had to evolve very quickly, which is stretching the bounds of plausibility"
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