Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca.
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Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca.
The fins of zebrafish develop rays roughly where the digits form in limbed vertebrates.
Arkadiusz Kowalski
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