A unique account of the biology, ecology and evolution of choanoflagellates - the closest, known, living, unicellular relatives of animals.

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A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexu

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