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TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins

This Week in Evolution

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The Relationship Between Archaea and Eukaryotes

Archaeal biology is studied so little. There's a lot of like chorice-al biology or just understanding how these things work that I think could be really valuable, you know, sort of ironically enough, probably in understanding the cancer cell. And they look at this not only through the lens of cellular processes but also asking about the presence and absence of some gene families as almost as characters to make that case for the relationship between these major groups of archaea and eukaryotes.

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