….While the knowledge that an overwhelming majority of our genes are the same as most other animals’ is not really new, what UW scientist Sean B. Carroll tells us is.
Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin, shows how genetic material is similar among species that are vastly different, such as humans and fruit flies, and how they change over the course of time.
In his book “Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo,” Carroll explains how there is a basic genetic “tool kit” that is responsible for the development of all creatures.