randman writes:
Indeed the most primitive metazoan (the theoritical common metazoan ancestor) is thought to be incredibly complex genetically, perhaps as much as human beings.
You brought this up in Chiroptera's comb-jelly thread, too. Are you suggesting that the theoretical Metazoan ancestor has the genes for making a liver, heart, feathers, tentacles, tube-feet, gizzard, intestines, claws, antennae, toenails, bones, placenta, amnion, siphon, fins, Malphigian tubules, hair, eyes and/or medulla oblongata, etc.?
I think you're going to have to produce your source for this information.
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