Her inspiration had come from the work of a Russian, Dr Igor Charkovsky, who in the 1970's had organised dolphin - assisted births in the Black Sea and felt that the common evolutionary origins of humans and dolphins in water explained a natural affinity. (gentlebirthmethod.com)
One defends that these molecular signatures suggest a common evolutionary origin of skin appendages, whereas the other proposes that the same genes are re-used for developing different skin appendages. (sciencedaily.com)
The interlocking mesh pattern is very similar to the structure other virologists have found in bacteriophages, a family of viruses that infect bacteria, which suggests that herpesviruses and bacteriophages may share a common evolutionary origin. (scientificamerican.com)