Atavisms and atavistic mutations

@article{Hall1995AtavismsAA,  title={Atavisms and atavistic mutations},  author={Brian K. Hall},  journal={Nature Genetics},  year={1995},  volume={10},  pages={126-127},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27868367}}

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