How much does the value of any work of art—or anything, really—come from its inspirations, and how much comes from which inspirations are combined, in what particular ways, and to what audiences?
When we think about the organisms in the ocean, we don’t often think of these strange and beautiful early life stages that look very unlike the adults they grow into.
After mapping the human genome, scientists went on to sequence many animal genomes in order to help answer interesting questions related to evolution, physiology, and medicine.